Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they came to the opening to purr over their work. Miró built a cluster of giant terra-cotta and cement sculptures, including a huge green bird, a giant pitchfork, and a Miró-size ceramic egg in a pool. As the opening festivities for 150 select guests wore on into the flower-scented twilight, he could not tear himself away and sat on a wall, clucking like a proud hen: "Look at that egg! It's the largest egg in the world...
...they swarmed into Manhattan 150,000 strong, occupied 85 hotels and motor inns, added to the traffic jam, monopolized sidewalks, held seven-hour-long parades, and displayed a keen group sense of humor in a thousand hilarious ways, including occasionally entangling innocent natives in loops of invisible thread. They wore red fezzes, red and green floppy harem trousers, and embroidered jackets, and looked like wandering extras from The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. They were the respectable and respected members of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North America.In other words, Shriners...
...derisive epithet for men ranging from leading demagogic politicians down to the Klansman next door. Snopeses pop up early in Yoknapatawpha County, but unlike most other Faulkner characters they seem to have no ancestors-at least not from Mississippi. Flem's father, the vicious Ab Snopes, wore neither blue uniform nor grey, but was a carrion crow on Civil War battlefields...
...Castro guerrillas in Argentina. Last March Argentine national police captured six Castroites in a mountainous area of Salta province, near the Bolivian border. Over the next three months, the police captured 27 more and identified several marauding bands. The captured men, some of whom had Castro-style beards, wore olive-drab uniforms, black-and-red armbands, and called themselves the "People's Guerrilla Army." As in Venezuela's F.A.L.N. terrorist group, the men were between 25 and 35; at least one had been trained in Cuba, another was nicknamed "El Cubano...
Elizabeth wore two gowns, both the same sort of Roman-matron style, one blue and the other white. She changed offstage. This was the first time she had ever faced a theater audience. She looks heavier than she does in movies but not nearly as old as she is. She is 32. She was beautiful, but not as beautiful as she is supposed to be, if you know what I mean. But how could anybody be that beautiful...