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Word: wearingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Moscow engineer protested that modern wives are no longer inferior. They make their husbands take the children to school and do the shopping, insist on eating in restaurants, send most of the laundry out and leave the rest "unwashed and unironed until there is nothing left to wear." Said he: "It will soon be a question of 'emancipating' men, not women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Restive Husbands | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...Labs are expensive, and they become obsolete faster than offices and classrooms," Westheimer noted. "The wear and tear is much worse...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Chem Dept. Objects To College Science Center | 1/17/1962 | See Source »

...first established that the girl was strong and athletic and could probably have pinned the scrawny old theater owner to the floor if she had wished to. She had arrived in court in pigtails and a little girl's dress, so Giesler asked the judge to make her wear the clothes she had worn the day of the "rape." After she showed up in a low-cut crimson gown, Pantages was acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Ambivalence Chaser | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...named Silvia), has the pretty figure of a lithe and leggy 18-year-old with brilliant onyx eyes and, of course, red hair, but inside she is all fox. Richwick learns this the hard way. Sylva sleeps under the bed, curled up in a vulpine ball; she refuses to wear a stitch of clothes, and she smells so strong that her room must be cleaned and thoroughly aired each day. She bolts down whole chickens, crunching up bones and all. She barks and bites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fox into Lady | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Taken at a glance, the Ivy basketball league doesn't appear to be too different from any other league: all the players wear uniforms, and five of them play at once for each team. And yet something always seems to happen...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Basketball Team To Hit The Road | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

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