Word: grayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really don't even think about it anymore. Every morning I shave from the top, and use a scissors on the bottom twice a week. I've had it since I was 19. I'm 52 now, and I'm thinking of dyeing it blue when I go gray...
...that the unofficial war in Northern Ireland between Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries continues. Two boys visit a lump of plastic flowers that passes as a fresh grave, the caretaker sweeps a traveled path past still shining headstones marked "IRA Volunteer" and the police surveillance camera hovers atop a thin gray tower across the Falls Road, watching shadowy forms dart among the monuments...
...Milltown teaches the walking wounded of Belfast anything, it is the finality of death. Weaving one's way through the cramped gray stones and overgrown plots, surveying the slope almost entirely covered with casualties of street violence, it is impossible not to covet the small space of empty grass at the bottom of the hill. Whether this desire for peace prompted by exhaustion is enough to build a just government remains to be seen...
Poirier knows about the relatives who still go to the water's edge in Peggy's Cove, where the salvage boats are etched in gray on a soft horizon, and toss flowers into the sea. He says he'll dive through December if necessary...
HACKING AT THE GRAY LADY...