Word: grayer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marked Restic's 15th season ofHarvard football. His hair was getting grayer bythe day, and some wrinkles began to add hints ofexpression to his stoic face. The team had a verystrong season and went into New Haven tied forfirst in the Ivy League...
...Beast," had been on the run for 23 years. Suspected of ordering at least 150 killings, he was convicted in absentia in 1987 of murder and drug trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Some sources suggested he had undergone plastic surgery to change his appearance, but apart from grayer hair and a more pronounced paunch, the man captured last week bore an unmistakable likeness to an FBI computer-generated drawing based on the last known photograph of Riina, from...
...proof that the world still needs a strong and resolute U.S. Europe's woeful incapacity to stop the near genocidal carnage in Bosnia buttresses this argument, as do the American troops whose orders read "Somalia." Yet imagine the reaction if the new Democratic President were someone older and grayer, a Walter Mondale, say, or a Lloyd Bentsen. An aura of anticipation? Unlikely. Rather, the likely response would be a halfhearted shrug at business as usual in the global amphitheater...
Things look a bit grayer at Big Blue these days, at least judging from an internal memo leaked last week by someone within IBM. The theme of a charring corporate review delivered at an April management meeting in Armonk, N.Y., was "Everyone is too damn comfortable at a time when the business is in crisis." The critique continued: "There's no fun being a no-growth business. It's not the stockholders' fault. The problem belongs to those who manage the business." Remarkable words under any circumstances, but most remarkable considering the source: IBM chairman John Akers...
...went down the path. Father was sitting on the bench, watching the sun go down. His dog Arbat was lying beside him. Father looked tired, his face seemed grayer and older. He asked, "Do you know already? Did Mama tell you?" I nodded. "Scoundrels! I told them what I think of them. Perhaps I went too far, but it serves them right. They thought I would crawl on my belly in front of them...