Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lady died in Pittsburgh not long ago. She was a spinster who wore sensible shoes and no-nonsense hair styles, and she had labored more than 30 years in the musty routine of a bank. The life of Miss Ida Capers, 72, was a lonely one-except for her dogs. All her life she had had at least two. When she suffered a heart attack in her house last January, her only companions were a pair of Irish setters named Brickland and Sunny Burch...
...Capers called them her "girls." At Christmas, she sent out pictures of her dogs, as proud parents send photos of children. Often, the only jewelry she wore was a pin shaped like an Irish setter. Her dogs were her life, but Miss Capers fretted constantly about what might happen when Brickland and Sunny Burch no longer had her to care for them. Who could possibly love them as she had? Determined that her dogs should not suffer, Miss Capers wrote a will-leaving the bulk of her modest estate to the Humane Society of Western Pennsylvania and stipulating that Brickland...
...chairs. There were 14 chairs at the table and only nine students. The two chairs on either side of Randall were vacant, giving the class a strained formality. After hearing the popular stories about the school's artistic sloppiness, it was surprising to see the girls neatly dressed. Many wore sweaters, mostly shetland. In front of each girl lay an orderly loose leaf notebook, into which the girls made frequent entries. Several girls kept outline notes...
...boss of the teeming 24th Ward, on Chicago's West Side. He was the ward's first Negro alderman. He wore $200 suits, and his friends called him "Duke." He held real estate valued at more than $100,000. He had just leased a shiny new political headquarters, with autographed photos of people like John F. Kennedy on the wall. That was how it was with Benjamin F. Lewis, 53. Everything was going his way. Last week he was re-elected as alderman by a pretty decisive margin-12,189 to 888. It almost seemed as though...
...only possible by prying patron from chair, the better to read the gilt-embossed name card affixed to it, some players could be told without a program. Bigtime buyers for stores or manufacturers, from both the U.S. and Europe, tended to be short, squat, greying and myopic; they wore lumps of coats with muskrat collars, orthopedic shoes and chewed Sen-Sen by the handful. Lesser buyers, reluctant to pay the heavy cost of admission (often a promise to buy as much as $1,700 worth of merchandise) lurked around showroom exits, approaching departing guests with whispered offers of "anything, just...