Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quality sunglasses or dark goggles are the best safeguards against snow blindness for the skier planning any length of time in the sun. Darker or neutral gray lenses with a light transmission averaging 20 per cent will screen the potentially-harmful untraviolet rays. For safety sake, these lenses should be of shatter-resistant safety glass or plastic. Tinted eyewear of ordinary glass offer an additional hazard to the eyes of a skier who falls or grazes a tree limb on a downhill...
...couple of Eastern collegians must have caused Coach Bill McCurdy some concern as he thought about Harvard's late-season tournament chances. Navy's Cortland Gray tied Harrison Dillard's meet record and beat Elias and Ralph Boston to win the 45-yard hurdles in 5.5. Frank Costello of Maryland became the first Easterner to jump higher than Pardee this year, clearing 6-10 1/4 to take second place...
Prohibition came to Kuwait as deviously as an Arab horse trade. In theory only Christian residents of the predominantly Moslem nation could drink, using ration cards to obtain whisky through London's Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., which has had an import monopoly on Kuwait's liquor flow for decades. In fact, Moslems imbibed increasingly, and drunken-driving fatalities mounted apace. The nation's stricter religious leaders then teamed up with local merchants who resented Gray Mackenzie's lucrative monopoly to introduce a prohibition bill in the Kuwaiti Assembly. With voting a matter of public record...
...Gray Mackenzie padlocked its doors, and the poisoning cases began to stagger in as sales of after-shave lotions and cologne soared tenfold. Several dozen British and American petroleum engineers served notice that they would not renew their employment contracts if Kuwait stayed dry. Several influential Kuwaitis have applied to remote countries for posts as honorary consuls, hoping thereby to qualify for diplomatic liquor privileges. Many of the thirsty began flocking to Basra in Iraq, 100 miles from Kuwait City. Their pilgrimage has also produced agitation for repeal of the law from their weekend widows left behind. They fear that...
...arboretum was one of four Massachusetts sites honored as National Landmarks. Another was the Asa Gray House, built in 1807 on Garden St. in Cambridge to house Harvard's famous botany professor. It was to Gray, a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin, that Darwin's theory of evolution was first outlined...