Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasants are virtually paid off with a lek and a promise. Tirana has a TV transmitter that broadcasts to a total of 200 TV sets owned by party officials. Albanian workers patch holes in their trousers with bits of vulcanized rubber, but in the new "jet class" "the men wear Italian-cut suits, and the girls have flaring cocktail dresses...
...home of U Nu, himself a Buddhist monk. Meantime, livening up the diplomatic garden parties, Ben-Gurion wowed his hosts by showing up attired like a potbellied pixy in Burma's traditional gaungbaung headgear and silk sarong. Chortled the Israeli leader: "Now I know what the Scots wear under their kilts...
...makes $50 an hour ($10 less than most top models, a difference that will probably vanish with her first big cover), is called by Photographer Milton Greene "the newest, most dewy-eyed model this year," has blue eyes, brown hair and too much figure. "I'm made to wear a flattening bra," she sighs. "Otherwise, I take away from the dress...
...with pride. "This is the biggest deal I have ever signed," crowed Scott. "To the best of my knowledge, it is the biggest such deal ever made." The deal: endorsement by the Yankee sluggers of a new line of men's and boys' clothing, named Mantle-Maris Wear. The payoff: a $45,000-a-year guarantee for each man for the next three years and a percentage of the sales...
Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. That old boulevardier of the intellect, G.B.S., loved to wear ideas like carnations. Unlike carnations, few of the ideas in this 1910 buttonhole have withered...