Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is a relatively modern one. Whether out of innate good sense or colonialist snobbery, whites up through the 19th century shunned the tropical sun, carried parasols, wore big-brimmed hats and left exposure to nonwhites, whom nature has kindly endowed with pigment protection. A white man's tan, in fact, is the result of a dark pigment that rises from mid-level layers of the skin in an effort to guard against further assaults by the sun. But such tanning was not thought of in the U.S. as a sign of health until the 1920s, after sunlight...
...century. A Belgian-born Roman Catholic priest seeking converts, he was greeted with hostility by Hawaii's ruling Protestant-missionary families from the moment he arrived in Honolulu in 1864. He eventually volunteered to serve the leper colony on Molokai, became a beloved, if eccentric figure there; he wore a flowered native dress under his cape, tied up the brim of his battered clerical hat with string. At the age of 49, he died of leprosy, or Hansen's disease...
Harvard responded with a second power ten and pulled out to a 6-seat margin going into the last half-mile. Princeton upped the stroke for the final sprint, but Harvard wore the Tigers out with a third power...
...Cornell match Friday was the quickest of the season. Only the number two match went to three sets, as Bernie Adelsberg wore down his opponent, 6-8, 6-2, 6-4. The most decisive victories were 6-2, 6-2 singles wins by sophomores John Levin (one) and Rooky Jarvis (four) and a 10-2 doubles conquest by the same players...
...coup that seized Greece was so swift and efficient that most Greeks hardly knew what had happened. Last week, as the initial shock of the military take-over wore off, Greeks started to learn something about their new rulers and to adjust to life under a rigid regime...