Word: wore
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...Silva, the new Environment Minister, cut an especially peculiar figure as she ambled timidly into view. While most of the crowd standing under a burning sun wore T-shirts and shorts or miniskirts and halter tops, Silva, a hard-core Evangelical Protestant in the world's biggest Catholic country, was dressed in a skirt down her ankles, and she appeared somber and unmoved by the attention, as though she felt unworthy of such acclaim. But the poor voters had cheered her because she was one of them. She was also a potent symbol of both Lula's all-inclusive government...
...When I remember the day, I remember concrete things. I remember how I last heard the door slam when my mother left, or the smell of the hair gel that I wore that day. Remembering days makes me conscious of the nature of loss, of the cruel synaesthesia of memory. It is a memory of my mother becoming a memory, of how 12 years of my life became the only years with my mother...
...pockets. If you look closely enough, you can see a hint of fear-tinged-excitement in my eyes as I prepared to arrive on the campus that would forever change my life.I knew it was going to be a long drive, but I also knew that the clothes I wore sitting driver’s side would be the first impression I made at Harvard. Never one to fold at the demands of fashion, I carefully chose an outfit both comfortable and indicative of my sense of style: an orange-stripped polo, army-green cargo pants, and light-caramel Timberland...
Though Jones leaned on the black caucus to get behind Obama, many saw him as an undeserving outsider who jumped the line, who wore ambition on his sleeve. Some were "very upset" to see Jones hand important bills to Obama instead of spreading out the goodies to other Democrats, said Delmarie Cobb, a black Democratic consultant who supports Hillary Clinton for President. Jones was less successful outside Springfield. Some old-line black politicians in Chicago backed Hynes out of loyalty to his father. Rush endorsed Hull...
...started out pretty fast, and we were ahead from the beginning, and we pushed through MIT and Northeastern pretty early and BU hung with us for most of the race.”The Radcliffe program showed leadership on the waves and in the community, as the crew proudly wore pink shirts to raise funds and awareness pitching in to promote the search for a cure for breast cancer.“We had 176 athletes racing in pink shirts, and we sold shirts and gave out information,” Burmaster said of the weekend...