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During the Sept. 26 Presidential Debate, Senator John McCain vowed to continue fighting in Iraq, noting that he wore a bracelet given to him by the mother of a slain soldier--a woman who'd made him promise, he said, to "make sure [her] son's death was not in vain." Senator Barack Obama immediately responded that he had a bracelet too--given to him by a woman who begged him to "make sure another mother is not going through what I'm going through...
That's why Gwyneth Paltrow wore custom-made, 6-in. (15 cm) Alexander McQueens at an Iron Man premiere and Sarah Palin donned Naughty Monkey Double Dare pumps at the Republican Convention and former Lehman CFO Erin Callan navigated Wall Street in skyscraper spikes. Because heels are the perfect shoes for negotiating the complicated landscape where authority meets beauty. Think of them as a peacock's tail--if each feather were also a poison dart...
...Many Tories weren't so circumspect. Some wore pins and badges and T-shirts declaring their allegiance. Eleanor Laing, a Tory MP, appeared as the theoretically impartial chair of a debate about the U.S. elections sporting a sequined jacket decorated with stars-and-stripes and G.O.P. elephants. Talk at the many social events around the conference was dominated by the contest. "I rather like Sarah Palin," confessed one immaculately coiffed Conservative dame, as she waited in the powder room queue. "How can you say that?" interjected her neighbor. "That Palin woman is simply terrifying...
...would grab my soda and poptarts, exchange a brief greeting in French with the cashier, and go back to my dorm and my studies without another thought. Each time I came to CVS, I was struck by how glad the Haitian employees were to see me. The year wore on and our French greetings turned to lengthier French banter, and still I could not understand why our acquaintance should bring them such joy. Then I realized that they were probably homesick. That it was nice to have someone to talk with about familiar things, like plantains, and Creole, and warm...
...comes, you can’t tell one Harvard student from another. Sweats and rain boots, hoodies and moccasins—it’s all so blah. Sally, what happened to your new jeans? Where did they go? And Little Johnny, your fresh kicks? Professor Joe Shmoe, you wore that yesterday! The cold weather had deterred them from continuing their streak of fashion-savvy intellectualism, just like it does every year. Tragic. Obviously, we are busy people here. Weighed down by problem sets and papers, attire is absolutely the last thing on a Harvard student’s mind...