Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sloshed through 18 inches of water without any special protection, five developed immersion foot, and four had to be evacuated after three days. Only one made it through the five-day trial. The other 55 smeared the silicone grease on their feet every 24 hours; some of them also wore silicone-treated socks. Of these men, not one had to drop out because of immersion foot; only six of them developed it, and theirs were mild cases...
...trouble, which started at a plastic-flower plant in the northeastern part of Kowloon, quickly blossomed into the most prolonged disturbances in the colony's postwar history. Mobs of three or four thousand teen-age boys, usually led by older youths who wore Mao Tse-tung emblems on their shirts and waved the little red book of Mao's sayings, stoned hotels, overturned autos, set fire to a double-decker bus, and showered bottles on the police...
...expert horseman and huntsman, Edward learned to fly, to surf-and to swing, which in those days was called belonging to the "gay" set. In the whirling world of the '20s, whatever the prince wore became instant fashion: he popularized plus fours, decorative woolen sweaters, midnight blue tailcoats, tartan jackets and oversized knots in neckties. Aged 41 when he became king, he had long been the most eligible British bachelor since King Arthur. A near-worshiping public chanted the popular song: "I know a girl who knows a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales...
...Chicago, headed by famed Anesthesiologist Max S. Sadove, have carefully compared many "generic equivalent" drugs for years and found great differences in the effects on patients. One notable example involved an anesthetic; a cheaper, generic-named form simply did not anesthetize in some cases, and in others the effect wore off too soon. Besides potency and purity, there are 20 to 30 other types of difference between drugs, most of them too subtle for routine Government testing. But some may prove important for certain patients. "Our conclusion," reported the Sadove team; "is that generic equivalency is frequently a fable without...
Swishing Tail. Many of the enemy dead wore tiger-striped uniforms and had gone into battle barefoot, their shoes tied around their necks. They had been so certain of victory that several carried English-Vietnamese phrase books. Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis Walt arrived a few hours later to inspect the battlefield. He had barely begun when the cry "Incoming!" went up and three mortar rounds boomed in. Walt and his staff dived for foxholes for the third time in ten days -and the closest call. One round hit only 15 feet from the general. Walt was unhurt...