Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they did rush, he adopted variation number five, a pass to the receivers the halfbacks had to leave in order to rush the passer. Which just goes to show why coaches get gray, and why grandstand quarterbacks are so often wrong...
...felt a warm, liquid pressure at the back of his throat. He tried to light a cigarette and found his hand was shaking and gave up. He could see out the window and across the quad from his chair; it was a gray day with the wind whipping off the river, and the couples were already filing out of the entrys and towards the dining hall gate. There were boys carrying blankets and shorthaired girls brushing leaves from their green dresses. Vag watched them for a minute, then got up and opened his desk drawer...
...Navy and the Air Force. But the Army, he jokingly concluded, remained "rather timid, and remembering that I was a battery commander, has always felt a little backward about asking me to look at a review ..." Finally he picked up his telephone and told Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray that he wanted to watch the ground forces do their stuff...
Defense officials stuck to their original line: this isn't anything we haven't anticipated. Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray took his vacation as scheduled; other top defense officials went off for the usual routine dinners and speeches across the country...
...making the announcement of the sweeping policy change yesterday, Gray called on Congress to pass legislation to "prevent grave abuses" of GI education benefits...