Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stassen was a shrewd choice for keynoter not only because he is young but because he visibly represents the new-found strength of the Republicans. To run the convention as permanent chairman, the National Committee nominated a more experienced politician, well-worn Joe Martin. Minority Leader of the House...
...Worn out by the unusually stiff opposition yesterday, the team faces a strong Princeton group this afternoon, which has won all but one of its games and appears more experienced than the Crimson team...
...Garibaldi red shirts were first worn when Grandpa Garibaldi's independence fighters in Uruguay uniformed themselves in a supply of slaughterhouse workers' blouses...
...rushed to the operating table so fast she hadn't a chance to impress the surgeon with the fact that she had just been on ... 'a walnut fudge bust' "; a man "who had just had a violent argument with his wife"; several school teachers who "were worn out with fatigue"; a young woman who couldn't digest onions; "one girl who had simply vomited her dinner...
...surface Summer's Lease is a well-told story of a well-worn character: the sensitive young man. As such it is distinguished by good wit and by still better observation. But it is also a study of family life, early 20th Century vintage, almost as cruelly incisive as The Way of All Flesh, and more compassionate. Its essential theme: a human being's gradual discovery of the universality of pain, and of the fortitude with which it is sometimes...