Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experiences, Furr maintains, prove this point. He followed his curriculum for only six months, but in that time he achieved revolutionary results: "I reduced my weight from 262 to 195 pounds. As a grandfather, I was an old, gray-haired, senile man. I am now as virile as I was at 30, happy inside, and my hair has returned to its original color. In short, I feel like a young man again...
...five years as president of the University of North Carolina, shy, hardworking Gordon Gray, 46, won both the respect and the admiration of his three campuses. He carried on a $47 million building program, launched new four-year schools of medicine, dentistry and nursing, earnestly tried to make his university "the brain, the nerve center, the heart and the conscience and the will of the state." But he was a man too much in demand: he was called so often to Wash ington-as special assistant to President Truman on foreign aid, director of the Psychological Strategy Board, chairman...
Unshaven faces, dirty tieless shirts under the gray flannel, threadbare socks in the white bucks--these attested to the intensity with which the latest American expatriates were trying to emulate the native students. But somehow, the Germans' long uncut hair, their coarse black sweaters and corduroy trousers, marked them alone as the true torchbearers of the new Enlightenment...
There were at least 200 athletes in the Union last night--some of them gray-haired crew men from the years of the First War, and others such recent football figures as John Culver, Bob Cochran, and Jerry Marsh. It was the first annual dinner of the Harvard Varsity Club, preceded by cocktails at six in the Club House next door...
Starters, besides the goalie, will be the same as for last week's Dartmouth tilt. Hank Holmes will go at outside-left, Gray Hodnett will play inside-left, and Shad Tubman will start at center-forward. Dick Fisher at inside-right and Ken McIntosh at outside-right will round out the line...