Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massapequa, N.Y., Kathy came home from school and announced that she would need nylons and a garter belt to wear at her girl friend's birthday party because "all the other girls" would be wearing them. Kathy is eight years...
...darkest time fell between the years 1893 and 1895. The government of his native Sweden-"the land of the nonadult, the disenfranchised, the mutes"-had tried to suppress his work as "blasphemy." Penniless, he settled in Paris with one summer suit to his name, for summer or winter wear. His second marriage was going badly, confirming his obsessive distrust of women who, he said, "admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature, peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy and black magic and once nearly committed suicide...
...reflected by the index, the British worker no longer wears a cap, but he sports a necktie. His wife has abandoned lisle hose for nylon and wears a girdle. Their children no more appear in hand-me-downs; working-class boys wear blazers, and girls blue jeans. More dramatic, say merchants, are changes in their choice of food and furnishings. Twice as much sherry is drunk today as ten years ago. Housewives ignore cheap meat cuts in favor of chicken and roast beef; avocados and chow mein have become stock greengrocer or chain-store items. Moreover, the lower class, with...
...Archbishop Leo Suenens of Malines-Brussels; Dominican Father Michael Browne; Vatican Librarian Anselmo Albareda. In accordance with tradition, Giovanni Panico and Ildebrando Antoniutti, the apostolic nuncios to Portugal and Spain, will receive their red hats from the heads of state in those countries. - Cardinals who belong to religious orders wear robes that are the same color as the habit of their order...
...quixotic solitary, indolent in the grand Spanish manner; he secretly preens himself in corsets worn many years before by his wife, who died on their wedding day. One night the uncle persuades Viridiana to wear his wife's wedding dress...