Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kauai, where Promoter Lyle Guslander's Coco Palms resort has become the bellwether for hotel operations on other islands. A low, sleek structure whose two long arms embrace a central lagoon, Coco Palms features local color. Bed-lamp shades are plastic copies of the feathered helmets kings once wore, bathroom basins consist of giant clamshells, and guests are called to meals by a leather-lunged islander blowing into a conch shell. Another Gus-lander development, the 22-month-old Hanalei Plantation, is situated on a promontory that was used as the set for the movie of South Pacific...
...police, under the direction of Chief Daniel J. Brennan, concentrated on keeping the crowd moving until it wore itself out. One officer vainly tried to disperse the mass with a portable public address system, which kept conking out. He warned that "Dr. Pusey is in the police car over there, and will suspend anybody arrested...
...bride wore a plaid sports shirt and blue jeans that were several sizes too big. The groom wore an open-necked blue shirt, faded jeans, pale boots. Astride horses, surrounded by prize Santa Gertrudis cattle, backdropped by the Andes, Governor and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller played host last week to newsmen while honeymooning at Monte Sacro, a 14,826 acre Rockefeller ranch in Venezuela. Invited by her new husband to pick any horse in the corral as a gift, the former Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, selected a Venezuelan champion stallion named Oleaje. Beamed Rocky: "She chose the best horse...
...none of this has saved James from becoming for many readers simply an exquisite specimen of nineteenth century intellectual history. He wore a beard when beards were fashionable--an unfashionable capitulation for a Harvard man. And his massive work on psychology contains only one tiny paragraph on sexuality--an equally unfashionable oversight today. Sex leads to Vienna, however, and few writers complement each other as well as Freud and James...
Right Cross. Playing in summer stock in 1938, she did a scene in which she wore boxing gloves and was supposed to hang one on the leading man. This leading man had a nose like Cyrano de Bergerac's and was not much bigger than Toulouse-Lautrec. Uta flattened him. He got up and, some months later, married her; she became Mrs. José Ferrer...