Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farmer who tilled his fields from dawn to dusk and helped make America safe for democracy holds a fond place in most of our hearts. As America grew bigger and richer, the story continues, so did the farms, and the farmers. It is today's conventional wisdom that farmers wear gray flannel overalls and take care of their farms with three or four gleaming machines...
...middle-aging Beatle-manic mother, may I suggest that it is not "the parents who are targets of the Beatles' satirical gibes" but rather the soppy cult of pseudo-sacrifice wherein Aunt Bessie of the Missionary Society tells everyone about the hair shirt she has to wear because she donated all her brassières to the Uncivilized Savages...
Leatherneck Square. The Communists fire their artillery at Con Thien on a random schedule to keep the Marines guessing when the next bombardment or the lone round of explosives will crunch into the camp. "Those single rounds are the most dangerous," says a young Marine. "But the barrages wear you down. You just lie there shaking and saying 'Please, Christ, just get me out of this...
...game had elements of evenness in the scoreless first quarter: it took that long for the Harvard offense to adjust to the Leopards' "50 angle" defense, for quarterback Ric Zimmerman to find the passing range, and for the bigger Crimson linemen to wear out their Lafayette counterparts...
Though standards inevitably slipped during the Nazi regime, today's quality is consistently high. If Meissen's artisans no longer wear tails and top hats to work, its 1,000 employees (150 of whom are Communist Party members) can nonetheless take pride in their plant's well-preserved tradition. Still working a single shift, Meissen's chi-namakers fire their pottery to over 2,500° F. in antiquated, three-story-high ovens that hold 5,000 pieces at one time. Its painters, trained by long apprenticeships, continue to do all their work by hand...