Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months Harold Ickes had worn down the White House doormat, trotting in & out with pleas, arguments, documents, plans and maps showing how much more economically, honestly, efficiently the projects could be managed if he could be the sole manager...
...really have no qualifications as an Ambassador. I remember when I came over here many years ago ... we were asked to tea at Buckingham Palace and wanted to be very correct. I remember getting a tall hat-the first I had ever worn-and a tail coat. We presented ourselves. But everybody wore a straw hat and a short coat...
...platforms of our playground, all shining smooth and worn...
Shocked by Shelley's death, bored by Teresa Guiccioli, worn out by living with the Leigh Hunts (whose very modern children Byron called a "draal of Hottentots") Byron decided to go to Greece. Author Quennell does not believe that he really wanted to go. "The idea of death might leave him calm; he shuddered . . . at the prospect of moving house." To Lord and Lady Blessington who saw him just before he left, he made farewell presents, demanded "a corresponding gage d'amitie." He made "some sarcastic observation on his nervousness." He had wept "and made no effort...
...writing this column because I want to show off any fancy literary style or any profound historical knowledge. Nor do I have a new angle in the well-worn intervention-non-intervention debate that I want to get out of my system. That, it doesn't seem to me is of real importance. I am writing it because I am mad, as most everyone else is mad, that we should be doing something that clearly doesn't help us achieve our aims, and that we clearly don't want to do. I am mad because we are blind, because...