Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aplenty. Bulgaria's Premier and Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, the host, Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček and Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu-all greeted each other effusively. As the second high-level Communist meeting in as many weeks wore on, however, the bruises soon outnumbered the busses...
More than 500 spectators, most of them curious students, paid 50 cents a head to watch the historic struggle. The McGill team was neatly dressed, after the English fashion. Seeing their opponents so nattily attired, the Harvard players were mortified for they wore no special uniform. The players had not felt called upon to indulge in such extravagance. Each man wore dark trousers, a white undershirt, and a magenta handkerchief tied around his head, as was the custom with the Harvard crews...
...admitting that he would accept a draft. Others whispered that it was a twin double cross: Romney quitting early enough to wreck Rockefeller's timetable in retaliation for Rockefeller's supposed duplicity. No one, of course, could substantiate anything, and the speculation was subsiding as the shock wore...
...Democrats tried to keep him from running for a second five-year term in 1964. Benign but somewhat bungling, he won a reputation as West Germany's unexcelled master of the malapropism, has been long regarded by his countrymen as the butt of much good-humored ridicule. Students wore "I like Lübke" buttons, and satirists produced an LP parody of his stumbling speeches...
Victoria never wore her crown in private. To Albert she was a yielding, sensuous wife who even in her plaints on childbearing (she bore nine) felt that it was well worth the price. Victoria's grief at his death is an inundation of scalding, desolating loss...