Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...numbness wore off, the University and the Kennedy family announced the fund-raising drive for the Kennedy Library, and members of the Class of 1965 ran the national student drive to raise money for the library. The Memorial Drive underpasses became the issue of the day. If nothing else, the sycamores provided a focus for the spring riot; and the MDC police cooperated by bringing out their police dogs, and the riot lasted until...
...averaging $5,160, are more than $1,000 lower than the U.S. average and that per-pupil expenditures, at $366, are $117 lower than the national average. Worse, Oklahoma is falling behind more each year. Some buildings are so drafty, the teachers said, that last winter students and teachers wore overcoats in class...
Newspaper boys were still delivering Sunday morning papers when the door of the fashionable ten-room house on Gelfert Strasse opened and two people walked out into the sunlight. The man was tall and burly, his mane of dark wavy hair streaked with grey. His wife was plain and wore her dark blonde hair brushed back over her ears in a severe boyish bob. Absorbed in quiet argument, they walked along the tree-lined street to a neighborhood park, where they talked some more. Then, arm in arm, they returned to the house, and the man bade his wife farewell...
...students (scholars they were called then) wore their sober uniform, not ostentatiously distinctive or capable of arousing democratic envy . . .," reminisced James Lowell, neglecting to mention Thoreau's breach of decorum and, moreover, humbly refraining from revealing that even as Thoreau strode in olive green, he himself, in the class behind Thoreau, was decked out in vests and jackets reflecting the wilder reaches of the visible spectrum...
...became a member of the New York state Industrial Board and in 1929 Franklin Roosevelt's state Industrial Commissioner. In 1933 Roosevelt appointed her the New Deal's Secretary of labor, a post which she held until his death. Although she was the first woman in the Cabinet, she wore this honor with the same nonchalance as she did the tricorne hat that became her symbol...