Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kicking the Tradition. Under the paternalistic rule of le Pere, as his countrymen call him, youngsters everywhere now flock to new secular schools that have replaced the dreary old Koranic institutions. Young Tunisian women wear mini-djebbas that are the scandal of the mullahs, and bikinis among the scantiest on the Mediterranean. But Bourguiba is kicking more than tradition into the North African dust...
Curtis' Kicks. Phyllis Diller owns three Excaliburs, in yellow, silver and grey-presumably rotated to match her hair. Bobby Darin, Eddie Albert, Actor James Darren, Batman Adam West and Writer Rod Serling have one apiece. Steve McQueen got one for his wife. Dick Van Dyke and his wife wear raccoon coats while tooling around in their yellow model; when people yell hello, Dick and Marjorie wave little pennants that say "HI." Tony Curtis sold his two Excaliburs. He's got four other cars anyway, and besides, Tony gets his kicks now by restoring authentic antique cars. "I suppose...
...army officers and civilians, creating deep and dangerous resentments that have yet to be cashed in. The army is still riddled with officers and men loyal to Amer, and it is furious over the disarray and disgrace that has fallen on it since the war. Some officers no longer wear their uniforms on the street...
Poor and yearning little girls are standard fixtures in hardscrabble literature. Most of them, like little Clara Walpole, scheme and claw their way up from a knockabout childhood and finally wear silk dresses and live in the biggest house for miles around. But if Clara seems to be a drearily familiar type, there is a magical naturalistic quality in this book that makes her one of the most pathetically provocative literary heroines of the year...
...long, Kroyer was off on his own. Noting the wartime shortage of elastic, he invented an ingenious substitute of wire and thread, sold it to Danish textilemakers for $15,000. A flood of gizmos followed-bicycle rim linings made of woven paper, which bike-happy Danes found would save wear on tires, paper hammocks, one of the first pressure cookers to appear in Europe, even a skillet with special grease-catching depressions to improve frying of steaks. That lowly item has been cooking up brisk sales in Denmark and seven other countries for more than 15 years...