Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carrying tearful, terrified children. Hospitals are packed-some 4,800 civilians have been treated for wounds since early May and refugee centers overflow under the tide of the more than 160,000 people made homeless in the past six weeks. Schools have been closed for weeks. Many youngsters wear metal identification tags or bracelets, in case they are lost or found dead or wounded. Barbed wire coils around some homes, sandbag prices and sales have shot up, and the My Duyen Construction Co. offers to build a simple sandbag shelter for $100 and a deluxe model, complete with electric lights...
...hotel, he was still laughing so hard he had to lie down for ten minutes before he could even tell Myra about it. "Myra," he said, tears running down his cheeks, "I haven't seen anything so funny since the night Gypsy Jack Ramos forgot to wear his shorts into the ring at Sunny-side Gardens...
...protect the individual from himself? In Michigan, the Court of Appeals recalled an 1889 state court ruling: "Under our system of government, the aim is to leave the subject entire master of his conduct, except when the public good requires some direction or restraint." A law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets, continued the court, "has a relationship to the protection of the individual motorcyclist from himself, but not to the public health, safety and welfare." So Michigan's motorcyclists no longer must use helmets. But the Rhode Island Supreme Court was "not persuaded that the legislature is powerless...
Aren't you going to wear anything to the dance...
Aspen is assembled by Phyllis Johnson, who once taught at a mission school on a Navajo reservation and later was intimate-apparel editor of Women's Wear Daily. She got the idea for her project while ski-bumming one winter at Aspen; her fellow vacationers, she felt, were ready to enjoy "culture along with play." So in early 1966, she produced her first issue to meet their desires. Today, some 20,000 subscribers receive Aspen at $4 per box, and Mrs. Johnson just about breaks even...