Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point. General Power's answer to the threat-an "airborne alert" that would keep 25% of SAC's B-52s in the air at all times - would be enormously strenuous and costly. It would require more flight and maintenance crews, more spare parts to keep up with wear and tear, more tankers, enormous quantities of fuel, all adding up to $1 billion a year. But without it, SAC will be vulnerable, and the U.S. will be in danger...
...rich-quick operators swarmed into the field, advertising directly to eyeglass wearers through the lay press and classified telephone directories. Appealing to feminine vanity and masculine athletic aspirations, they claimed that famous actresses and sports champions were wearing them. In an uphill fight to crack down on these fringe operators, the Federal Trade Commission found most of these claims untrue. Also untrue: claims of "continual comfortable wear," "wear them up to six months without removing," "never irritating," "unbreakable," "cannot damage the eye," "provide better vision than other eyeglasses," "protect the eyes in all active sports." The FTC has forced several...
...members 50,000 copies of a frank, sensible booklet, "What Everyone Asks About Contact Lenses." Key points: no matter how well fitted, the contact lens is a "foreign body" in the eye, so the wearer must "learn to tolerate this intruder just as one must learn to wear false teeth." This may mean a week or two of varying discomfort, for some patients a month or more. Rare indeed are the happy individuals who can pop lenses into their eyes, feel comfortable right away, and keep the lenses in all day.* At least five or six office visits are needed...
Esther Williams, who is myopic, wears them out of the water but does not bother with them when immersed. Swimmers who need correction for reasons other than myopia usually wear the bigger scleral lens because it is harder to dislodge under water. Skindivers who use scuba favor contacts because spectacles, however ingeniously installed, are cumbersome inside a watertight face mask...
Some ophthalmologists still insist that the small corneal lenses should not be worn in active sports because of the risk of dislodgement. But several members of the Chicago Bears (hardly a sedentary group) wear them, notably Dr. William McColl, 29, All-America (Stanford University '52), with the Bears since 1952 and now in his second year as a resident in surgery at the University of Illinois. In his first season with the Bears, McColl's contacts fell out a few times, but he has no trouble now that they have been refitted. And Dr. McColl wears them into...