Anna Afanti, 50, a secondary school teacher, removed a surgical mask she had been wearing to ward off the tear gas to denounce Greece's foreign creditors.
Steven Greenberg, who owns the lounge on the 21st floor and its indoor counterpart on the floor below, bought 1,000 red terry robes for guests to wear to ward off the chill.
NEXT time you spot a merchant mariner on shore leave, look closely at that knitted watch cap, vest and scarf the seaman is wearing to ward off the winter cold.
Their only ornaments are simple necklaces made from seeds, teeth, feathers, beads, and soda-can pull-tabs, which they often get from traders who barter with the Pirahã for Brazil nuts, wood, and sorva (a rubbery sap used to make chewing gum), and which the tribe members wear to ward off evil spirits.
On Friday, the Espadas and their supporters wore red to ward off that influence.
She and her sons spent Sunday night snuggling together, wearing hats to ward off the cold.
Early jack-o'-lanterns were carved of turnips or winter squashes, but not round orange pumpkins; apple-bobbing began as a matchmaking ritual; and people wore costumes to ward off evil spirits.
Besides his dispatches from combat zones, Mr. Peterson wrote of an American dump scavenged by two Vietnamese villages near Danang; drug use by American soldiers; and the practice by Cambodian soldiers of wearing amulets to ward off bullets.
Daniel's brother Simon claims partial credit for the Clangers, having chatted to his father about his fantasy of a small planet and a giant called Jeffrey who wore armour to ward off meteorites and drank soup from craters.
That superstition provides Kate and her father with their livelihood: carving "objarkas," talismans that are worn like jewelry to ward off the evil eye.
