Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thus Russia might eventually desert Tito on Trieste if she can get what she wants in Iran, while her demand for a sole trusteeship of Tripoli may be a bargainer for complete freedom of the Dardanelles. Meanwhile the Russian delegates can only parrot well-known Moscow claims in well-worn formulas. Unless the deadlock is soon., broken from above, the Big Four's draft treaties for Europe will not be ready in time for the 21-power Paris Peace Conference...
...book, The Origins of Some Naval Terms and Customs, Lieut. Commander R. G. Lowry, R.N., writes as follows: A neckerchief usually of black silk was worn around the neck, and was sometimes used so as to protect the coat from the pigtail, but its real use was as a sweat rag worn around the neck or forehead; it was generally black in colour because this showed the dirt least. The black silk was in general use some years before Nelson's death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship...
Male styles stayed dourly conservative. In 1946, as in 1945 and before that, men will wear sack coats without vests, topped by cloth caps in unrelieved dark shades. Hats, when worn, will be high-crowned, narrow-brimmed...
Although the U.S. has hardly a new shirt for its back, and other war-worn nations desperately need cotton goods of all kinds, much of this raw cotton is not going to market. Main reason: it costs too much...
Like everything else in Paris, the Club des Cinq, at the foot of Montmartre, was down at heel. The decor-very modern—was shabby; the champagne-very expensive-was poor. The worn-looking, faded singer who came on half an hour after midnight matched the setting well. She had frizzled brown hair, a little black dress and cork-soled shoes. She was called La Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow...