Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sumatra, where the government says a mere 1,500 rebels remain holed up in the jungle, the rebels themselves claim to number 7.000. After a recent hand grenade-throwing incident in the Sumatra town of Padang, nervous government authorities ordered all males to wear shirts tucked into trousers. Worn uncinched, the shirts too easily concealed weapons such as hand grenades. Declared the rebel spokesman: "Another month will mark the third year of our struggle against Djakarta. Our spirits remain high...
...membership keys, the closest thing to a Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, and no one except an occasional sick accountant seems to notice that all this costs $50 a key and $1.50 a drink. The place is aquiver with girls dressed as rabbits, the subtle symbol of Playboy. They wear more or less what field rabbits wear, and they have what Chicago businessmen call "majestic mezzanines." When an expense account walks in, a coney comes up to him and says: "Good evening. I'm Barbara. I'm your bunny." But is she really? No, she is really Hefner...
Moran forces his salesmen to wear maroon jackets, and some have quit rather than do so (chuckles Moran: ''They'd give anything to get out of those red jackets'') He usually fires any salesman who cannot consistently make $250 a week in commissions, but just being around Moran seems to endow most of them with a profitable touch of blarney...
...grey world of loneliness and near despair through the eyes of women. "You see what I am," cries the anguished heroine of the title poem. "Change me, change me." . . . this print of mine, that has kept its color Alive through so many cleanings; this dull null Navy I wear to work, and wear from work, and so To my bed, so to my grave, with no Complaints, no comment: neither from my chief, The Deputy Chief Assistant, nor his chief-Only I complain...
...King's offspring today hold posts ranging from doormen at the palace to the governorship of Sayaboury province; the governor, a bit of an oddball, recently decreed that every elephant in Sayaboury had to wear a license plate.) In total rejection of his father's strenuous love life, the prince married one woman. Princess Khamphouy, a plump cousin, stayed faithful and sired five children. The old King proved totally uninterested in Prince Savang Vatthana's new ideas about agriculture, science and education. "My people only know how to sing and make love," he said...