Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disturbances began this morning when about 300 students gathered at Boston English High School to demand the right to wear African dress in school. When the doors of English were locked at 10 a.m., the protestors moved on to Brighton High School, where the violence flared and became severe. Students ripped screening from windows, set grass fires around the school, and stopped passing cars, assaulting one cab driver...
...technicality may keep Carlos' time out of the record book. Rule No. 142 of the International Amateur Athletic Federation requires that runners wear shoes with no more than six spikes. Carlos and Smith both wore new Puma shoes with soles studded with 68 needle-like spikes designed especially for the composition track that is an exact replica of the running surface at Mexico City. Questad ran in regulation shoes. And Winner Carlos insisted that he could have run 20-flat barefoot...
Keyboard and Diamond. On and off the field, McLain has been tackling all comers with careless abandon ever since he was an eighth-grader in suburban Markham, Ill., and refused to wear the blue uniform tie prescribed by the Roman Catholic sisters at Ascension grade school. As Denny tells it: "Ten days or so before graduation, I decided I wasn't going to wear that goddam blue bow tie any more. So I ripped it off, and Sister said, 'Put that tie back on,' and I said, "I'll be damned if I'll put it on.' Well, she called...
...approach roads to Kenya's Lake Rudolf are strewn with jagged chunks of volcanic lava that wear out shoes in two weeks. The lake's strand is an equatorial desert (average temperature: 105 degrees) blasted by winds of hurricane force. Its inlets are infested with crocodiles and surrounded by lions, vipers and cobras. Its inhabitants, the Turkana and Suk tribesmen, are dying off. Not surprisingly, only a few white men have ever explored the lake. One of them is Actor William Holden, who was camping there last week...
...Italy's shoemakers were a down-at-the-heels lot, and Fiamma Ferragamo was a bright-eyed bambina in Florence. Having grown up together, both the Italian shoe industry and Fiamma are now well accustomed to each other. The world's largest exporter of leather foot wear, Italy sold $315 million worth of shoes abroad last year, is running 25% ahead of that pace in 1968. And as part owner and chief designer for one of the best known of her country's 8,000 shoe manufacturers, raven-haired Fiamma, now 27, reigns as an industry style...