Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some $110 million in Communist credits for development and construction. With the bankroll have come close to 1,000 Iron Curtain technicians and advisers, including 500 Russians, 125 Red Chinese. Sweltering little Conakry, the capital, has taken on an East European look. The black traffic cops wear little flat-topped caps resembling those of the hated A.V.H. police in Hungary. At the airport, Guinean honor guards for visiting dignitaries sport Russian helmets and Czech machine pistols...
Despite the little nothing's popularity among such habitue es of the best-dressed lists as Mrs. Winston ("Cee-Zee") Guest and Audrey Hepburn, not all designers are infatuated with it. 'The little nothing is becoming a uniform." says Arnold Scaasi. "Women today want to wear 'something' -that special dress that makes them look young, glamorous and pretty.'' Reports the New York Herald Tribune's alert women's feature editor. Eugenia Sheppard: "Husbands even say that the little nothing is just a misnomer for that little rag." The little-nothing effect...
...Rocky Colavito, who was appalled at being traded and suffered through a miserable 1960 season, is now happy with Detroit ("I like the town, and then some"). Slugger Colavito, starting fast, already has nine home runs, 27 RBIs, and his own fan club of teen-age-girl bleacherites, who wear sweaters emblazoned ROCKY. With Colavito in left, Bruton in center and Veteran Al Kaline in right, the Detroit outfield is probably the finest in the league. Catcher Brown, another former benchwarmer, is hitting...
Over the centuries, through destruction, loss, and wear and tear, thousands of such early Latin translations of the Bible disappeared. But countless ancient parchments, palimpsests* and books survived to challenge modern scholars with a complex task: to collect and compare early Bible texts with the standard Vulgate completed by St. Jerome in the first decade of the 5th century. The job is under way in the Vetus Latina (Ancient Latin) Institute of the Benedictine monastery of Beuron in southern Germany...
...setting of the unspoiled Polynesian dream: dazzling beaches, translucent water, rich landscapes with green-yellow vanilla patches. Living up to legend, the people are warm, easygoing, unobsessed with the failures of yesterday or the portents of tomorrow. (Though the women are shapely, they are not all beautiful; and most wear conventional clothing-more or less...