Word: grayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wiser, more lined and grayer. World anguish is a real village in India, which he smells, sees and hears. His wife is closer to him, but less independently visible than back in the campaign. He is less the preacher and more the educator. His speeches have become more substantive, detailing policy, not promises. He is at once more flexible and firmer. He can knock back a couple of bourbons at night with a man he likes. Ruefully he has admitted to himself that Georgetown gossip can affect his leadership. He is developing personal intuition about individual congressional leaders like Danny...
Like a ghost of politics past he sat with Harvard Nieman Fellows of the '70s. Pete Seeger had aged since the days when he sang in front of huge audiences, providing the musical backdrop for an entire decade. His hair and beard were grayer, his voice older, the lines in his face more pronounced...
...amazed at Harvard's poor performance and somewhat befuddled by the success of the bookies' pro-Yale, pre-game augury. I expected Harvard to revive and regain at least some vestige of its lost honor, if not the lead. But things only got worse: the New Haven sky grew grayer and grayer, obscuring the surrounding hills. By 3:30 p.m. the weather was uncommonly foul. The brightest objects in sight were Harvard's white jerseys, the fans' foul weather gear and the grass on the field. The situation became downright absurd when the gray metamorphisized, converting into rain, and gave...
Howard Hunt Jr. Only five months into his provisional 35-year sentence, he has become noticeably thinner-25 Ibs. by his own measurement-his hair grayer, his eyes listless, and the muscles of his left calf have slightly atrophied as the result of a mild heart attack. He emerges from prison only to tell authorities what he knows about the Watergate breakin; so far, he has testified 19 times before grand juries and congressional committees. For security reasons, on those occasions his legs are put in irons and his wrists are manacled to a chain round his waist. Much...
...depressed, Mitchell reportedly does not talk about it to friends, though they find him looking grayer and older. He has assured them that he has an adequate amount of money for his defense and his family's needs, though he is no millionaire. But not even his friends can say what happens when they are not around and John and Martha alone must confront his besmirched reputation and his shattered career...