Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sales. Today, says Donner, cars are being scrapped in the U.S. at a rate of more than 4,000,000 a year, v. 3,200,000 in the early '50s. And this rate should continue to rise because every year there are more cars on the road to wear...
...Menon. Do not think it was easy for him to ask for American arms. Right now, it is important not to push him into a corner in public." Another Cabinet minister, who does not like Nehru, also counsels patience: "His will to resist will wear down. It is already worn down a long way. Hitherto, there was no opposition at all in India. Now, Nehru is relying on his opposition. He may hate it. He has been thrown into the company of people like me, people he does not like. We make strange bedfellows, but together we are going...
...barked: "Get that damn thing out of here." He wore the same shapeless brown fedora for some 15 years. His frayed shirts were usually smudged, his brown or grey suits baggy, his high-laced shoes were scuffed. His only sartorial concern was that all aldermen wear straw hats, white gloves and carry dime-store flags in the Memorial Day parade each year. They did-and still...
...month Guantanamo has been transformed from a post guarded by a thin contingent of marines into a front-line fort manned by thousands of combat-ready troops facing the 10,000 militiamen Castro has outside. It is not a particularly pleasant duty. The shrapnel-proof vests the marines wear are hot; they call Cuba's tiny, biting insects "flying teeth," and they already have a marine nickname for the militiamen opposite-"Ruben the Cuban." The marines have no special animosity toward Castro's troops, but they are honed to such a fighting pitch that, as Corporal Jerome Golden...
...safe side, three Lesage aides flew to Washington to find out if there were any tricks left out of the Kennedy manual. They returned with four helpful Kennedy-staff TV hints: Do not shave before 5 p.m., eat only a light supper, bask six minutes under a sun lamp, wear no makeup. In his no-minute pre-election debate, Lesage gave the urbane, polished performance of a man who knew precisely where he was going, and left Johnson appearing...