Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Protestant) Governor C. William O'Neill, Ohio Attorney General William B. Saxbe was asked to rule whether school boards could employ nuns to ease a grave teacher shortage. He ruled that they could indeed hire nuns (as they have been doing for 39 years), allow them to wear habits in class. Said Democratic (and Catholic) Governor Mike DiSalle, demanding an apology from Peale: "This matter has never been before...
...wonder was that Wilma Rudolph could run at all. The 17th in a family of 19 children, Wilma had a series of crippling childhood diseases, did not walk until she was eight, and then had to wear a hightop, corrective shoe. By high school, Wilma had improved enough to become a four-year, all-state basketball player and to clean up in track. Now a junior at Tennessee State, Wilma is studying to be a teacher (average grade: B plus), has so little trouble winning races in the U.S. that she has sometimes slowed down in mid-sprint to shout...
Many a new product spawns other new products as it jolts older competitors into fresh efforts to improve their lines. When the textile industry threatened to turn to the new synthetic fibers, the cottonmakers developed resin treatments to make cotton wash-and-wear. Polypropylene, one of the newest and cheapest of the petroleum plastics, is now putting the pressure on more expensive cellophane. Produced as a fiber, it promises to make the best no-ironing blend of cloth. Laverne's "invisible" chairs are made of the plastic, make any room look bigger, less cluttered. Esso is experimenting with colored...
...Iran's election crisis suddenly hit, McHale covered angry rallies, turned up at the Shah's press conference - a regal affair where reporters wear cutaways and striped trousers - and "clumped down in the rear row, hoping my blue suit wouldn't seem too shabby." He and Fodor met their deadline with a massive report to Foreign News Writer Richard Armstrong, who, having drawn on background material put together by Researcher Nancy McD. Chase, turned out the story of a hardworking king in trouble. What McHale and Fodor needed then was rest-perhaps in a miniature-like garden...
Under Ten Flags (Dino de Laurentiis; Paramount), a somewhat better than fair sea-fight thriller, brings back to the screen the most feared man ever to wear the uniform of a British sailor. As Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton roasted the barnacles off Fletcher Christian 25 years ago, and he is still awesome as he bites off his words, chews them three times and then spits them out as if he did not like the taste. This time, as befits his age and rancor, Actor Laughton is a shore-based admiral who, toward the beginning of World War II. directs...