Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle on the Home Front." . . . Not one single day passes when one or more radio commentator or editorial writer doesn't scream that the war can be lost, everyone must learn to make sacrifices heretofore unheard of. ... This is all very true, but we're all worn out from nodding our heads in full agreement...
...assembly line, then I say, swell. Give us a program, and we'll live up to it. We'll go through with it without a whimper. But until that time comes, under unified direction, I wish they'd quit yelling at us. We're all worn out, and we haven't done a thing...
...Some time ago you spoke of the difficulty night-shift workers have in sleeping in the daytime [TIME, June 15]. A black sock worn spectacle fashion should help (the toe over one ear, the top over the other-and the middle covering eyes and nose). It is cool, dark and comfortable...
...death of a Moslem police inspector sounded another warning of communal riots. Police had orders to warn crowds to disperse, then use tear gas, then ironbound lathees, then, as a last resort, to fire. Student demonstrators tried to confiscate all hats and neckties-symbols of Western domination-worn by Indians and Europeans in Bombay. Then they seized topees, burned them merrily in street-corner bonfires. This week, with rioting still sporadic, the pressure of an Indian National Congress party boycott and a general slowdown of the war effort faced the British...
...tableau on the village square. Peasants crowd their patient, beaten donkeys past a pink-cheeked effigy of St. Anthony of Egypt (patron saint of donkeys) for the ceremony of his blessing. Above stand two stone saints whose faces, under wear of time and weather, have become like the worn, patient faces of peasants...