Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century wore on, the Union faltered, both socially and financially: by 1912 membership and participation had fallen off drastically. World War I plunged the Union into financial chaos, so that only the firm, paternal hand of the University maintained it through the twenties and into the Depression. But Edward Harkness, author of the House system, was responsible for the Union's final social demise. With the new Houses an undergraduate building was no longer needed: and the University, looking carefully into Major Higginson's will, discovered that the benefactor had made allowances for the failure of his institution...
...retired professor asked about Roman metal workers who wore face masks made from goats' bladders to protect themselves from dust and lead fumes (Roman Naturalist Pliny was the source). Three readers were baffled by the word glitch in one of our moon stories (it is a modernized term for World War II's famed gremlin); another was having trouble finding the word aelurophile (it is a variant of ailurophile, meaning lover of cats). Ofttimes the department is called upon to settle arguments-last year two college roommates quibbled about who makes more money, pro footballers or auto racers...
...well-publicized resignation would pave the way for an eventual return to power-perhaps to Kaunda's office-by popular acclaim. The 47-year-old tribal leader is admired by many thousands of Zambians, many of whom still wear the collarless Nehru-style "freedom shirts" that Kapwepwe wore as a "general" in the revolution...
Klee-Like Fabrics. For decolletage, Courreges stole the show. To go with his miniskirts held up by suspenders, his models displayed bare breasts. Not to be undone, Bohan's girls wore not a single bra and slithered unencumbered about the salon. Hardly unusual, perhaps, but one mannequin, wearing nothing but a black velvet sheath split straight up the front, caused Cecil Beaton to drop his pencil. "She looks as if she left the convent too soon," he gasped...
...gloves, for instance: they charmed everyone. When asked why she wore them she said it was because she bit her nails until they bled. "Lynda's gloves" became a kind of family joke--among dozens of people...