Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreed to disarm; a Washington stockholder had a hot tip that the U.S. was about to invade Laos; others understood that Russia had dumped American securities in Switzerland to ruin the U.S. market. Just as inevitably, there was talk about some gigantic plot. In Los Angeles, retired Newspaperman John Gray, 87, who held on to his falling Southern California Edison stock, said: "The whole thing was started by people who wanted to discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock, prices went way down, as was planned, but then things got out of control." California's Maurice...
...three "sets" per dance, followed by a short intermission for breath-catching and flirting. The tune can be anything with an air and a beat, better if it is something everybody knows, like Skip to My Lou Gal or Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Darling Nellie Gray. The real trick is knowing what the caller means and picking it up fast when he sounds off with: "Bend the line and Dixie chain . . . Strip the gears and do-se-do." Or even the famed (in New England) Doodar- call to the tune of De Camptown Races...
...hears new aphorisms from his bene factor's mistress ( Nadia Gray). "Life is an auction." she tells him. "Men put up their muscles or their brains, women their bodies. It's all the same." Sellers finally comprehends. Putting up his brains, trimming his beard, he pursues what he can now clearly see is the good life. He overpowers the crook he works for and spirals upward, swiftly becoming an international financier, running stupendous treasuries through his fingers like sand. The camel jumps gracefully through the eye of the needle into the sheer heaven of riches on earth...
...their gray earnestness and self-importance, Harvard people want to laugh. Their critical broadsides are reserved for those works of art or literature which inspire awe, love, shame, or any other of the serious emotions. When something makes them chuckle, they are strangely uncritical and wildly appreciative. Harvard dissects the guts out of Dickens and Wagner; it eulogizes Gilbert and Sullivan...
With the Crimson still unable to unwind, Gray Henry put the Tigers two up at 2:12. Lou Williams, one of the nation's top scorers, finally put the Crimson into the scoring column at 9:51 by converting a pass from Grady Watts...