Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That episode left the moderate-conservative faction of the Democratic party without a statewide candidate and propelled Arnall to the front, even though Talmadge and Vandiver both favored James Gray of Albany. An urbane, Massachusetts-born publisher, Gray campaigned against the Great Society, lawlessness, and bragged that his stand during demonstrations in Albany resulted in the jailing of Martin Luther King. Gray, however, despite an enormous advertising campaign, never gained the popularity among the state's hard-core segregationists that Maddox enjoyed...
...While Gray and Maddox battled for the racist vote, Arnall and State Senator Jimmy Carter split the moderate support. Carter possesses all the boyish charm and warmth that Arnall so desperately lacks, but until the last two weeks of the campaign, Carter struggled against the damning popular assumption that he was too little known on a statewide basis. But, in fact, Maddox barely edged out Carter for the runoff spot...
...girl, tastefully dressed for the season but not the day, which was streaked gray like an old aluminum pan bottom, glided through the official file card givers and takers only to be stopped by a tall youth with high cheek bones and red magazines in his left hand...
...JEFF GRAY New York City...
...Dublin's famed Nelson pillar in O'Connell Street last March, 50 years after the Easter rebellion, than the great stone head of Admiral Horatio Nelson himself disappeared, hijacked by a group of Irish art students. The boys sold it for $840 to London Antique Dealer Benjamin Gray, who carried it back to England and set it up in his shop. Now Gray has decided to return to Ireland the 220-lb. souvenir of the great column that had stood for 157 years as a symbol of English domination. But, faith, nobody wanted it. "I even tried...