Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...participants were and how they went about it. It was a calm, measured and heavily middle-class statement of weariness with the war that brought the generations together in a kind of sedate Woodstock Festival of peace. If the young were the M-day vanguard, many in the ranks wore the housewife's apron and the businessman's necktie, and many who clambered to enlist were political leaders...
...elsewhere a funereal atmosphere dominated as church bells tolled and the names of the war dead were read. A pair of high school sweethearts from Blackwood, N.J., attended an M-day rally at Glassboro State College, then committed suicide together. Across the Hudson, New York's city hall wore the black and purple bunting of mourning. Mayor Herman Zogelmann of Wellington, Kans. (pop. 8,391) cooperated with the American Legion post to drape the town in patriotic tricolor. Across the country-in drenching San Francisco rain, in ankle-deep Denver snow, in crisp New York fall sunshine-Americans took...
...meant to him, replied: "We've got our job to do here and that's what we're doing." Sure enough, an army platoon set out from Chu Lai on combat patrol and killed two guerrillas in a firefight. But half the members of the platoon wore the black armbands...
Professor Nye wore a blue-striped, long-sleeved, well-pressed shirt. Young, vigorous, and prematurely balding. No coat, no tie. Oh, if Master Pappenheimer should see him. I was sure he was a Rhodes scholar. Princeton and Oxford it turns out. I was in the office later to hear his secretary phone for a squash court reservation for Friday at 5 p.m. I don't think that I could get my little brother to phone for a squash court reservation. But then I don't pay my little brother...
Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, for example, takes much of its style and action form the American gangster film. His Farenbeit 451 is adapted from a second-rate novel and takes after the sci-fi films of the fifties. The Bride Wore Black is a product of Truffaut's consuming interest in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, to whom the film is dedicated and the imitation detracts from the individuality of the film...