Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Staying at Home. It is just possible that Castro bought a shirt and tie at the men's wear counter, for next day he suddenly emerged all dressed up for the official May Day march-past through Red Square. He even sported a blue beret, which seemed increasingly confining as, for five solid hours, under a warm spring sun, he stood at Khrushchev's side on the rampart over Lenin's tomb. It went on and on; 250,000 athletes, workers and schoolchildren paraded by. Only during the ten-minute parade of familiar military hardware, featuring medium...
...Heckscher's pre-adolescent and pre-Raphaelite Claudio cannot conceivably be guilty of the crime for which he stands condemned. Presumably he hopes to play Hamlet some day; meanwhile he might blow his nose--and get into something roomier than the shockingly indecent tights he has been asked to wear. Carol Schectman gives us a plump-cheeked, milkmaid, Putney-girl Isabella and somehow makes a two-dimensional part seem barely one-dimensional. Jacqueline Winer transforms Mistress Overdone into an inaudible New Orleans madam of the steamboat days; the accents of W.D. Hart's Provost are alternately refined and repulsive; Alfred...
Women were allowed to wear their corsages on the train, but men had to wait until leaving the coaches before lighting...
After nine days of waiting, Lester B. Pearson at last got to wear his formal cutaway to pay the traditional call on Canada's Governor General. He emerged, grinning broadly, to say that he had been asked to form a Liberal government. Until the last minute, no one was quite sure whether Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who loves office so much, would go quietly or cling in defeat to the vestiges of power. Even as he prepared for his own call on the Governor General, he fended off reporters. Was his visit for the purpose of resigning? asked...
...Congress of Racial Equality, the outfit that sponsored the Freedom Rides. Said he: "We do not ask the police of the South to be partisans, partial to our side; we do ask you to be impartial." Negroes, said Farmer, "are not afraid to go to jail now. They wear jail sentences as badges of honor. Not even being shot at terrorizes them. These people aren't going to stop...