Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gray and Janet Rose, chairman of the drafting committee, mounted a horse to lead a parade through the model neighborhood drumming up support for the program. "I'm scared," Mrs. Rose said, but then steadied herself and shouted, "Model Cities is coming...
Justin M. Gray, assistant to the City Manager for Community Development (City Hall's liason with the residents), Saturday predicted that the Council would unanimously approve the ordinance. "We won't be going cold to the Council with this ordinance; we'll be going with thousands of residents who say they want it," Gray said...
...kick-off rally for the referendum on the ordinance, Gray paid tribute to the resident committee which drafted the ordinance. "All the content came from them. If you went to Wellesley, with all those junior executives, you couldn't produce a better ordinance," he said...
...Washington, D.C., on a Friday afternoon two weeks ago, it was two huge pillars of gray smoke rising above the tan brick office buildings of K Street. Absolutely silent, thousands of cars filled with white government workers were evacuating the city. Every afternoon, they head for the bridges over the Potomac River in tangled horn-honking confusion, with their blue Maryland and black Virginia plates. But today, they were locked together bumper-to-bumper, heading for Key Bridge in a massive, determined phalanx. No one blew a horn. Quietly, the shirtsleeved car-pool drivers and passengers looked over their shoulders...
...year-old McGill, widely known as "the Voice of Reason in the South," embodies several of the disparate elements that make up this New South. His penetrating, almost colorless eyes and bristle gray hair suggest the Mountain South; the mellow courtesy and the slow, hypnotic cadence of the careful storyteller recall the Cotton South; his easy humor and fascination with historical minutiae bespeak the Southern Culture which has always been more a potential than a reality...