Word: wearingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...champêtre at Mount Vernon. The silty Potomac glittered golden in the setting sun as 138 guests boarded four flower-laden boats (each with its own musicians) for the 15-mile cruise to George Washington's sprawling estate. The ladies had been instructed to wear short dresses (the better to clamber about Mount Vernon's expansive lawn), and the men wore white dinner coats-except, unaccountably-the clothes-conscious President and his brother Bobby. Both turned out in black tuxedos...
Though Africa's hot-eyed nationalists wear European suits and talk knowingly of constitutional provisions and voting qualifications, they are well aware that many African tribesmen are still more impressed with black magic than political oratory. Last week an official pamphlet issued by the Southern Rhodesian government reported that some black leaders, unable to fire up their loyal constituents in the cause of black nationalism, have tried to fan antiwhite feeling by more primitive means...
Light clothing for day wear is essential. Lightweight, waterproof, ankle-height boots are necessary for climbing and long walks, and convenient even for sloshing around the camp in the rain; and a warm jacket will come in handy at night. Many campers pick up inexpensive Army knapsacks at surplus stores, generally a good source of equipment...
Grace Under Pressure. He never toyed with minor themes. He wrote of life and death, of time and towns (which he called cities), and of the courage he liked to call "grace under pressure." He never had much stomach, or much head, for politics, and his literary reputation may wear the better for it, since nothing dates like a paper barricade...
Filene's is lampooning the Lampoon this week by making an advertising gimmick of the magazine's spoof of advertising in its July Mademoiselle parody. Mannequins in death throes are advertising "clothes to be caught dead in"; others wear velvet straps, clam boots and pigeons pinned to the hems in order to deal with "problem knees"; and still others, struck by the "collectors rage," dip into bushels of mice and ensnare themselves in scotch tape and telephone wires...