Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Auto dealers were beginning to wear a trace of a smile as new car inventories hit a twelve-month low of 936,000 cars. By the end of April, dealers expect to slash this figure to 900,000. Now that dealers were beginning to empty their showrooms and back lots, passenger-car production climbed 20% to the highest weekly level of the year-112,551 new cars. The automakers have scheduled a 7% increase in April production to 415,000 cars...
...Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament made militarylike preparations for the pacifist pilgrimage. Marchers got nine pages of advance instructions (e.g., "Don't bring very young children or dogs," "Don't wear anything that will distract the attention of the would from our great issues"). Delegations from towns and foreign countries were issued varicolored identifying arm bands. Trucks carried baggage. An ambulance corps was on hand to minister to blisters on the fourday hike. Mobile canteens provided tea and cakes at cost. Overnight the demonstrators slept in rented schoolrooms, man and maid often bedded down side by side on bare...
...that we in this country continue to use the terms "bookworms" for bright children and "owlish" when they happen to wear glasses? In Europe, exceptionally bright individuals are portrayed as similar to Greek gods, perfect in mind and body. Unless we stop tagging our intelligent youngsters so unfavorably, they will continue to be afraid to show their superior intelligence in school...
...Nicot's weed in France. As troubadours sang the glories of smoking to an audience of 800, the organizers of the meeting proudly an nounced the creation of a new chivalrous order of tobacco lovers - "The Compan ions of Jean Nicot," whose members will be entitled to wear a lapel ribbon just like chevaliers of the Legion of Honor...
...Polish people, he reminded Gomulka. knew what it meant to wear chains-and knew what it meant to throw them off. "Woe to all who wish to take freedom away from us." he said. "Man in defense will go into the catacombs, enter a conspiratorial defense against the outside world." Then, ticking off some 20 Communist groups aimed at separating Poland's youth from their faith, he cried: "I tell you. you Caesars, you will bow to your God, and you will serve only Him." With new national elections coming next month. Gomulka was obviously anxious to avoid...