Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given a sweeping view of his universe of pimps, party-dolls, and sham. In the midst of all this, the country cousin (who spends most of his time writing home to Mama) falls in love with a used beauty (Julliette Mayniel) who appears none-the-worse for wear. The impossible longings of Charles for this girl are well-portrayed, but the plot is foreshadowed to death. Charles loses the girl, flunks his exams, and dies. Both reality and destiny are against him. Paul wins the girl, passes his exams, and lives, for, after all, this is the way the world...
...lived in Pakistan. I lived there very happily with my husband and with everybody else even though I 1) did not adopt Islam; 2) did not accept the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., I certainly did talk to my husband's male friends; 3) did not learn to wear a sari or salwar and kameez-for the same reason that your article points out: a Western girl rarely looks good in them...
Furthermore, the singers are encouraged to wear makeup so similar that it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between them, especially between the Czarina's spy, the antagonists, and Prince Golitzin...
Kathleen O. Eliot, Dean of Instruction; Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of the Graduate School; and Thankful Bailey, President of SGA, also delivered brief speeches. The ceremony was preceded by an academic procession for which, in an unexplained departure from tradition, seniors did not wear academic gowns...
...they discovered, was upset about a New York Times Sunday Magazine story reporting that many women are disturbed over her "devil-may-care chic." A housewife, said the Times, sniffed that Jackie "looks too damn snappy." The Times also went on to lift a story from Women's Wear Daily, which reported that Jackie spends about $30,000 a year for togs at famous Parisian houses, such as Cardin, Grès, Balenciaga, Chanel, Givenchy. She buys avant-garde models, added Women's Wear breathlessly, and most of the big designers keep a Jacqueline Kennedy fashion dummy close...