Word: grayer
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...record of the 1904 Senators and 1920 Tigers was 13 perfect losses, but the Orioles were at 16 and looking unstoppable when they reached the crescendo of allowing nine first inning runs by the Kansas City Royals. Grayer at 52 and a little less volatile, Robinson finally closed the clubhouse door ! and screamed. Because he has been three of the only five black managers (Larry Doby and Maury Wills had momentary calls in Chicago and Seattle), some people are saying Frank Robinson has become an old-boy network complete unto himself, as recyclable as the much fired, well-traveled perennials...
Together they make a contrapuntal etude. Mutter, 24, is a child of the prosperous West German bourgeoisie who grew up in a small town near the Black Forest and still returns frequently to visit her family. Mullova, 28, abandoned the gray streets and grayer bureaucracy of her native Moscow in 1983. Yet both women, currently in the forefront of young performers on their instrument, are emblematic of an important development in the world of concert music: the rise and triumph of the female solo violinist...
Their hair was grayer, their faces more lined, but here they all came, marching proudly out of history and onto the newest battlefield of racial conflict. Coretta King, Hosea Williams, Joseph Lowery, Andrew Young -- some of them had demonstrated with Martin Luther King in Montgomery, and some in Selma, and some in Washington, and now they had gathered with more than 20,000 supporters to march through Cumming, in Forsyth County, Ga., to protest the immutable racism there and the resurgence of racism elsewhere. And though King had been shot down 19 years ago, this was the week for observing...
...Washington, debate continued over whether to place Waldheim on a Nazi war- crimes watch list that bars those named from entering the U.S. As head of state, Waldheim will almost certainly be allowed to visit under diplomatic immunity. But, says a Justice Department spokesman, "his hair will probably get grayer waiting for an invitation...
...years after Batman's retirement, and the world has gone to hell without him. Bruce Wayne, nearing 50, is bored and angry; he drinks, he curses, he gets grayer. The cowl was hung up for good when Robin came to some unspecified violent end in the service of his mentor. But the city is under seige by the brutal gang called the "Mutants," who "do murders" for kicks, and Commisioner Gordon, four weeks from 70, is being forced into retirement by petty bureauacrats...