Word: wearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government issued a 500-word countercharge notable only for its ineptness. Quoting "authoritative circles in Athens," the statement, issued in English as was Seferiades' own message, accused Seferiades of being a Communist agent. It also suggested that he had spoken "to counterbalance and neutralize the inexorable law of wear and tear and oblivion, which was a natural consequence of nothing but biological causes responsible for his intellectual barrenness and absence from the field in literature." Presumably this was a way of saying that Seferiades is senile, but it was difficult to tell. Under the ruling junta, authoritative Greek choruses...
...When the art of acquisition was new in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was one of the canniest practitioners. In time, he parlayed nerve and some fancy forms of financing into control of a string of businesses in such diverse fields as retailing and men's wear, building products and theaters. Now that conglomerates are running into all sorts of head winds, Riklis' own interest seems to be veering from making mergers to simply managing his $2 billion annual sales complex...
...villages, all manned by penal' labor. A former prisoner there recalls the climate as terrible: temperatures hovering around 40° below zero in winter and soaring to a humid 95° in summer. During the warm seasons, mosquitoes from the myriad swamps of the area forced prisoners to wear long-sleeved jackets and full-length trousers despite the heat...
...hour before the chimes begin, the scene outside the railings of the Patriarchal Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord is like a wild party in the dance hall of a remote and dowdy workers' settlement. Shrill-voiced girls in brightly colored scarves and slacks (admittedly a few wear skirts) stroll about in threes, in fives, push their way into the church. But the nave is crowded. The old women took their places early on Easter eve. They snap at each other and the girls come out. They circle around the courtyard, shout insolently, call each other from afar...
...change. Your chart shows that you have some interesting new beginnings, and if I were you I'd prepare for them.' " He also tries to discourage what Client Robert Cummings calls "astrological hypochondria." Says Righter: "If all they want to know is what color suit or dress to wear, I cut them off, and I just won't talk to them again until they straighten...