Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a higher right-the right of Congress "to bring foreign-dominated organizations out into the open where the public can evaluate their activities informedly against the revealed background of their character, nature and connections." Added Frankfurter: "Where the mask of anonymity which an organization's members wear serves the double purpose of protecting them from popular prejudice and of enabling them to cover over a foreign-directed conspiracy, infiltrate into other groups and enlist the support of persons who would not, if the truth were revealed, lend their support, it would be a distortion of the First...
...room building is going up: "I have 51 men working on it-as long as I stand there watching them." Ryan gets money for his projects on hat-passing trips to the U.S., where he inevitably confronts "a little old lady who asks, 'Do the natives wear clothes?' It takes all my will power to keep from snapping back, 'Yes, they do, you lascivious-minded old hypocrite.' " To people who find him mercenary, he sweetly says, "Money isn't everything-there are always stocks and bonds...
...week hiked Mrs. Opal Ligon, the "better dress" buyer for Goudchaux's, the best department store in Baton Rouge, La. Mrs. Ligon's pilgrimage was duplicated about 4,000 other buyers who crowded into the fashion shows and showrooms to buy the clothes that U.S. women will wear this fall. Like most of her colleagues, she cut through the razzmatazz and made swift, sharp decisions...
Thus, to a great extent, the buyers determined the look in women's wear for the fashionable fall. The outlook...
...designers have not gone overboard in the fall line but have achieved an understated and (they hope) elegant look. Says Buyer Ligon: "The look is going to be the easy-to-wear one. There was a season, a couple of years ago, where fashions could hardly be worn, much less sold. Now the costume dress is in, with a lot of glitter. And the little black dress is back-simple, chic and pretty as can be. I couldn't be happier...