Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic tug-of-war between the U.S. and Germany for the favors of Vichy was so tough last week that worn old Marshal Petain must have felt that he was being torn limb from limb. For the moment, U.S. diplomacy seemed the stronger, but there was always the chance that Germany would abandon diplomacy for destruction...
Just where the Fortresses landed in northern Australia was a secret last week. Fourteen of General MacArthur's staff proceeded forthwith to Melbourne, but he stayed behind with his family to rest for a day. The sea and air voyage had worn Mrs. MacArthur...
...plain, washed-khaki jacket. The jacket was open at the neck. It was bare of stars (he could have worn four). It matched his plain, khaki trousers. The only gold was on his garrison cap. But the trousers were rigorously pressed. A bamboo swagger stick swung in his right hand. The jacket, trousers, cap and stick, for that place and that day, were the perfect dress. They were in the MacArthur tradition. Among the dressier uniforms of the generals around him, they made him as conspicuous as had the Russian boots, the resplendent tunics, the stars and the medals which...
System. In Fairview, Okla., Farmer Ben Sorge explained why he had worn his shoes on the wrong feet every other day for the past ten years. Said he: "It wears the heels and soles down even all the way around...
...matter in a statement in which they accused Snell, among other things, of attempt to deceive by the use of excessive gasket-maker to disguise the damage done to the engine head, by leaving the motor running upon delivery of the car to conceal the fact that he had worn down the battery, by suggesting a "motor-flush" cure-all when the engine still rau poorly after all his repairs, and by "general lack of respect for the intelligence of the customer or her agent...