Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustrating fact about this otherwise desirable concept is that U.S. generals have been expecting the Communists to fade for at least two years and, though they are plainly sweating hard, they so far have shown no symptoms of evaporation. By its official plan, North Viet Nam figures to wear down the U.S. resolve by the early 1970s. Though the U.S. is winning the clear-cut battles, the Communists still may not be convinced that they are losing...
...commandant of cadetsput there, it turned out, to represent the four Communist MIGs Robin had shot down over Viet Nam. As for that other fighter pilot's badge-the one the brass told him to polish off with a razor because cadets can't wear them -he may not have been the only one inconvenienced. Reported Olds: "I've heard a rumor the cadets had got hold of 3,000 false mustaches...
...stocky, has a handsome bearded face, and chooses to wear a symbolic slave bracelet. He is extraordinarily articulate verbally, and, by funneling his anger into his art, can afford to be genuinely warm and personable in face-to-face dealings with whites. There is, thus, a division in his work between violence and restraint, and a division in himself between anger and cordiality...
...wear the mask that grins and lies...
...Warm, friendly, mature girls," on the other hand, wear fishnet sweaters, black stockings, and colored underwear, according to Snavely. Other positive factors are very long or very short hair, indicating "that a girl wants to characterize herself as anti-apple pie;" flatchestedness, making a girl tend to "prove her femininity and sexuality however she can;" and coming alone to the mixer, a show "of maturity and self-confidence which her flocking sisters cannot claim...