Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high tail looked out of place among the shiny military jets crowding the U.S. Air Force base at Incirlik, near Adana, Turkey. Its wide wings drooped with delicate languor-like a squatting seagull, too spent to fly. Its pilot seemed equally odd: a dark, aloof young man who wore a regulation flying suit and helmet but no markings, and had a revolver on his hip. Pilot Francis Gary Powers, 30, climbed into the one-man cockpit, gunned the black ship's single engine, and as the plane climbed toward take-off speed, the wide wings stiffened and the awkward...
Circle & Cross. As Dr. Rajewski and his crews sifted the mud, they discovered what the people ate, wore and worshiped. They raised wheat, barley and other crops, which they cultivated with small plows. The women wove cloth out of wool and flax, sewed with bronze needles...
...tight, form-hugging slacks are made in everything from plain cotton ($1.95) to kid leather ($75). They ushered in the lollipop look. "My husband doesn't like them," explains a California housewife. "Every time I bend over, he says I look like a lollipop. So one day I wore a dress. First, I caught it in the car door. Then the baby poured soup in my lap. To top it all off, the grocer asked me if I were expecting another child. I've been wearing pants ever since." Next to pants, the staple is the simple, classic...
Thus, in speeches and loud, littered pageantry, De Gaulle's week wore itself out. He flew out of New Orleans for a passing visit to French Guiana, then was bound for home, where the problems of preparing for the summit might seem almost a rest for the weary traveler...
...poured herself into a yellow chiffon gown encrusted and strung with 41 clusters and strings of precious rocks borrowed from a New York jeweler. The spectacular finery, reportedly worth $1,000,000, and billed as the world's most costly dress, was designed by Couturiere Livia Sylva. Hope wore it on NBC-TV's quiz show, Play Your Hunch, where contestants guessed about the number of constellations in her high-carat caparison. Hunch's master of ceremonies, Merv Griffin, suggested to her that they should quietly run away together. Hope declined, conjectured that cops would soon overtake...