Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though one group of New Yorkers nearly came to grief in a Rochester bar: a local tough announced that "McCarthy is a mongoloid idiot," but was soon buying beer for the earnest young proselytizers on the simple strength of their arguments and jovially warning them to "drink it or wear...
...Tonton Macoute themselves are veiled in mystery. They do not wear uniforms, but move among the people--who don't talk about politics, because anyone could be an informer. One university student admitted that his father was in jail...
...National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing; France was elected president, and there he has remained. The first thing NASCAR did was decree that tracks were to have well-maintained roadways and fire-fighting equipment always on hand. Cars had to be equipped with rollbars; drivers had to wear shoulder harnesses. And stock cars had to be just that...
When the technique of tape recording was developed a quarter-century ago, it unreeled a whole new way of marketing recorded music. The best tapes had all the high fidelity of phonograph disks but none of their low resistance to wear and tear. The trouble was that they were cumbersome: wound on one reel, they had to be threaded through the playback machine onto another reel, then rewound. In the process, the hapless user could find himself struggling like Laocoon within coils of tape. Before taped music could begin to have the mass appeal of disks, something was needed...
...courtesy to apologize, though the Author, to Pirandello. After that, Buchwald is left to intervene periodically as the play drifts out of his control. He does so with reasonable skill, although his expression of unrelieved anguish and his habit of passing off fidgeting as unease begin to wear after a while...