Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Road riot was the third such outburst that Mosley's men had provoked in three weeks (total arrests: 155). Another free-swinging battle erupted in Trafalgar Square last month during a rally held by the National Socialist Movement, a minuscule offshoot of Mosley's group, whose members wear storm trooper uniforms, parrot Goebbels' anti-Semitic slogans, and hang pictures of Hitler on the walls of their seedy Bayswater headquarters...
When the Nationalist government jammed an anti-sabotage act through South Africa's Parliament last spring, anti-apartheid Author Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton asked, "What will be next? To make lists of disapproved persons? To confiscate their property and make them wear a yellow star?" Last week a list of disapproved persons was indeed issued by the South African government, and Justice Minister Johannes Vorster explained blandly that the list merely "closes certain loopholes...
...more fur (on cuffs, collars, scarves and hoods); jewel shades of color (garnet, topaze and turquoise) along with the not-so-new fruit and flower tones (fuchsia, heather, plum and black currant); opulent fabrics (heavily worked brocade, beaded silk and lace). "The little-boy look," cried Women's Wear Daily, "is out . . . The Big Three have rediscovered...
Blisters & Women. The result may not be "instant men," as one lad puts it. But most boys come away with heightened self-confidence and responsibility. One boy who got such bad blisters that he could not wear shoes put on heavy socks and trotted the six-mile race just to keep his patrol in the competition. Eight of the boys brought off an unscheduled mountain rescue, climbing 2½ hours to save a Baltimore tourist who had suffered a heart attack on a 13,000-ft. ridge near Snowmass Mountain...
...public and private life, he let people do as they pleased, reprimanded them at most with an ironic comment. He rarely restrained his wife Caroline, an impulsive romantic, whose affair with Lord Byron was the scandal of the time. When Byron finally left her, she made her servants wear buttons with the inscription ''Ne Crede Byron [Do not believe Byron]" and slashed her wrists; Byron retaliated by sending her a bracelet made of the hair of his latest paramour...