Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARTHA (sighing). Plenty, thanks. Let's get started. I'm so anxious to see the people--that's always been the nicest part of our work. I want to see how they eat, and what they wear--how they make their children behave...
...been victimized by the difficulties of an administration which seeks to make Pennsylvania great while behaving little. A university which tries to regulate its students' use of liquor, which is dominated by a business school just one step up from vocational training, and which requires its freshmen to wear dinks, does not foster a newspaper so excellent that administrators can watch its freedom without occasional distress...
...world. It is also the fattest and most bourgeois, charge its critics. Years ago, Togliatti's double-breasted suits had become the symbol of Italy's "respectable" Communism, seeking power not through revolution but in Parliament and at the polls. These days, more and more Italian comrades wear well-cut grey flannel, while their women appear at party functions in modish sweaters with tasteful single strands of pearls. But right now there are some bad rips in the party's grey-flannel respectability...
...candidates, including President Crowdus Baker, 55, Kellstadt picked a successor who is remarkably like him self. Both Kellstadt and Cushman broke into retailing by working in dry goods and clothing stores owned by their fathers, both have headed one of Sears's five big regional divisions, and both wear clothes that look as if they come off the Sears racks (and do). New Mexico-born, Cushman left the University of California after his junior year to join Sears's archrival, Montgomery Ward, rose to a department manager in Oakland, but quit in 1930 rather than take a Depression...
...Through Millions. In 1907 Hayden was elected sheriff of Maricopa County. Phoenix was then a raw town of 10,000, its unpaved streets lined with saloons, gambling halls and brothels. Among Sheriff Hayden's duties was one to enforce an ordinance requiring Indians from the Maricopa Reservation to wear pants, not breechclouts, while in town. Once, according to a story Hayden likes to tell, a group of churchwomen complained to him that an old Indian chief outside town had three wives; they demanded that the sheriff do something about it. Hayden went to see the chief, explained: "Under...