Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there was the Democratic candidate's most recent bid for the Negro vote. Many New Yorkers had not known what to make of his earlier declaration before a Harlem audience that he was "as black as you are"; but the ambiguity wore sharp with his claim that he knew Harlem's problems from having worked there twenty years in his father's shoe business. Harlem residents, for some reason, look not fondly on the white entrepreneurs who have for so long enjoyed such a strong presence in the ghetto. Left to simmer by itself, this attitude tends...
...ordinary Germans, who normally would have been held back by police lines, trooped into the splendidly furnished 14-room residence. Stiff at first, they gawked at the Gobelin tapestry on the wall and perched awkwardly on the edge of burgundy settees and easy chairs. But the uneasiness quickly wore off. Soon workingmen in open shirts, longhaired youths and nurses from a nearby hospital were helping themselves to cigarettes, guzzling beer and surveying the place as if they owned...
Harvard's Yardling soccer team perse-vered yesterday afternoon, scoring three goals in the fourth period to defeat Andover, 4-1, on the Business School field. Conditioning and ball control were the decisive factors as the Crimson wore down a gritty Andover defense...
...crowd grew and people began to mumble to each other. Except for the TV producers and the blue-coated representatives of the power structure, they were from the lower class, white and over 30. There were a lot of faded blue and green overalls. The outsiders wore suits...
Hoffman also described how he once wore the American flag to a hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and mocked Judge "Julius the Just" and his "Geritol Courtroom...