Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times--a parody of the "Gray Lady" of American journalism--might rival its model in sales at Harvard Square...
...steel to the relentless vision of a man named Robert Moses. Moses ran for governor of the state in '34 and lost, but he ran the state anyway, with his convoys of cement mixers and cranes. Moses created most of central Long Island in his own image--flat and gray and cement-hard--and he also created a fortune for himself, but he was never able to push his relentless vision out onto the eastern part of the island...
...blue-gray uniform of Egypt's supreme commander, President Anwar Sadat last week commemorated the fifth anniversary of the October War with an impressive military review in the desert west of the Suez Canal. A bagpipe band skirled It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, as MiG-21 fighters screamed overhead, and 10,000 Egyptian troops-accompanied by a stunning array of military hardware-paraded under a blistering sun. It was one of modern Egypt's most imposing military displays. Nonetheless, the message was that Anwar Sadat was ready to wage peace, not war-albeit from...
...committee still wanted to hear from Trafficante. Next day, he showed up, nattily attired in a gray pinstripe suit, but refused at first to testify. Finally, handed a court order granting him immunity from prosecution for anything he might say, and faced with contempt if he did not talk, Trafficante became one of the few top-level mobsters ever to answer a congressional committee's questions...
...Gray might have been Yale's first woman president, Rosovsky the first Jewish one. It was apparent that Giamatti was not the Corporation's first choice, but with his Italian heritage, the English professor fit the bill well. Giamatti accepted Yale's offer with a good deal of grace and humor...