Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foul or fair, the deeds done last week by the august U.S. Senate were indeed rising all over the place, and there was plenty of o'erwhelming still to come. The Southern filibuster, aimed at blocking passage of a civil rights bill, had begun (TIME, Feb. 29). To wear it down, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen kept the Senate in round-the-clock session. In counterattack the Southerners kept their colleagues coming and going all through the night with regular quorum calls. Meanwhile Texas' Johnson was hard at work doing what comes most naturally...
...have been realized in his life. Since the completion of The Virgin Spring, friends have noticed a new mellowness in the man. An intimate who has peeked at his diaries reports that they used to be filled "with a very funny kind of logic in which he could wear many different masks and be a new man for every person he met. They reminded me of Kafka." But recently the note of logical unreality has disappeared, and the diaries are now filled mostly with clearheaded, matter-of-fact notes about people to be seen and work to be done...
...felled attacking Russians in wind rows, slid to the ice time and again to block shots with their bodies. McCartan himself covered every corner of the cage with his big stick and big glove, bought time for hardy forwards like the Clearys and Minnesota's Bill Christian to wear down the Russians by sheer superior skating, swing the balance of the game in the third period. Final score: U.S. 3, Russia...
...emphasized in Nina Ricci's dresses and evening gowns. Suits are sometimes only suits, but often, as with Pierre Cardin, they turn out to be dresses with jackets. Several leading houses emphasized lounging pants, among them Dior, which designed a number of lounging costumes for formal evening wear. About the only thing the designers agreed on was that sleeves are out. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "How to look old hat this summer will be simple. Wear a dress with sleeves...
...price but in human life. If we go on like this, there will be no progress. Machines, machines are what you need!" But he posed for photographers when Sukarno wrapped a sarong around his waist, and whispered to his host the same aside that countless foreigners have asked kilt-wearing Scots. Queried Khrushchev: "Don't you wear pants under these things?" Sukarno seemed to enjoy all the dancing festivity more than he did the company of his guest. What Nikita thought of it all he did not say, but he looked heat-weary and frequently bored...