Word: grayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profoundly affected journalists. Marsh Clark first visited Viet Nam seven years ago, later served as bureau chief, and is now back in Saigon for a brief stint. "The mark of Viet Nam is forever on me," he says. "My language is altered, my hair grayer, my eyes sadder. Hamburger Hill, My Lai, the Green Berets, assassinations, mistaken air strikes, refugees and kids with napalm burns. The U.S. may try to forget, but that will be hard...
Vienna-born Bluhdorn, now 45 and a bit thinner and grayer than when he was the wunderkind of conglomerates several years ago, expects that The Godfather will lift G. & W. earnings close to their alltime record set in 1968. The company is likely to report sales of around $1.6 billion and net operating profits of slightly under $68 million, up $ 13 million from last year...
...Grayer heads at the United Nations recall that a woman once lost her press credentials for practicing prostitution and a male correspondent was barred for slugging one of the delegates. Otherwise, U.N. accreditation has never been a problem for newsmen. A 1946 resolution stipulates that "the press and other existing agencies of information be given the fullest direct access"-language so broad it could cover not only news organizations but propaganda groups as well. Last week, however, the U.N. press corps was in an uproar over the ouster of two veteran correspondents of Taiwan's government-subsidized Central News...
...With carefully written precision Justices Black and Harlan provoked and inspired others, on and off the court, to better thinking about law and American democracy. As the court began its new term last week, their absence seemed to have left "the nine black beetles" not only fewer but somehow grayer-less distinct, less vigorous, even, for the moment, less important. Consideration of the most significant cases has been postponed and, with the unexpected withdrawal of Virginia Representative Richard Poff as a potential nominee, it now seemed possible that many weeks might pass before two new Justices took their seats...
...case you haven't met him, he's the one standing in the corner in the simple black suit with the simple thin tic. His hair seems a little grayer than the pictures, but the curling side-burns over the car and that lock of hair which always hangs out of the pack over the forehead give him away. Notice the chin, the forthright chin of a politician who doesn't know enough to pull it back in before they knock it off. He's a dead ringer for a politician, a liberal politician like Hal Holbrook in "The Senator...