Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon and one evening dress. "The neatest neck-line in years" won the former contest, while a costume entitled "Just right for a woodland nymph" copped the latter. The pajamas "to slip into after a swim," lost out primarily because nobody could figure out when they should be worn--although Vaughn had a knowing look...
...around the historic migration of Australian cattle herds to escape a threatened Japanese invasion, "The Overlanders" becomes experimental by American standards in its complete emphasis on realism without the added appeal of ersatz excitement. Mr. Rank has successfully produced an absorbing, plausible movie and neatly avoids treading on the worn-down heels of contemporary horse operas...
When the war ended, J. Robert Oppenheimer was worn out. He said that he wished he could go some place and run a lunchroom. For 2½ years he had bossed the 4,500 scientists and technicians of the Los Alamos atom-bomb labs. After that, he thought, short-order cooking would seem like a restful vacation...
Phantom Gold: A dreary recital of the greed that consumes a Tobacco Road-like family when mineral deposits on their worn-out farm bring them big money...
...Worn thin by 32 years of steady trampling (2500 persons troop up the steps daily in pursuit of intellectual stimulation), the "increasingly treacherous" marble steps inside Widener Library finally had their faces lifted last week...