Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with such strange-sounding names as Evolution Valley and Tuolumne Meadows, of high places where the air is pungent with eucalyptus. Their packs held only a few necessities: a knife to carve a walking stick, binoculars clinking against a canteen cup, sandwiches. By contrast, the newcomers in the party wore madras shorts, sneakers, and apprehensive faces. They carried pocketbooks, transistor radios, straw baskets with food enough to fatten all the pheasant in the heather. New and old hands alike, 85 in all, were part of California's famed Sierra Club, out for a day's hike through...
...going to be elegant, dammit," promised the organizers a month ago, and it was nothing if not elegant. All the girls wore floor-length dresses, the floors of Agassiz ballroom were polished up to a high sheen, and even the janitor had on a black tie (with his dark suit...
...earrings always hurt her ears, and the screw ones either slid sideways or fell off during the evening. Pierced ears seemed a good way to remedy such problems, because the piercee cannot feel the earrings she is wearing. Of course, pierced earrings are not completely loss-proof. One 'Cliffie wore her earrings to sleep, and woke up the next morning to find one gone. She looked under the pllow and searched the sheets, but with no luck, and so considered the earring lost. When she changed her sheets the next wek, she found the missing earring nestled against the mattress...
Everyone who came to meet his plane wore a fur hat, and the sight was too much for him to bear. "Man, we got to have those!" he told his sidemen, and for fear that the hat stores would be closed before they could get to downtown Helsinki, they fled from the welcome-to-Finland ceremonies as fast as decency permitted. And sure enough, when Thelonious Monk shambled out on the stage of the Kulttuuritalo that night to the spirited applause of 2,500 young Finns, there on his head was a splendid creation in fake lamb's-wool...
...Louis University, Johnson told a crowd of 7,000 that he had been aware of St. Louis' importance "since I wore my first pair of Buster Brown shoes," a reference to the city's shoe manufacturing complex, and announced that he had appointed the St. Louis Cardinals' retired Star Stan Musial to be the new director of the President's Council on Physical Fitness. Musial, 43, succeeds Oklahoma Football Coach Charles B. ("Bud") Wilkinson, who resigned to run for the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma as a Republican...