Word: grayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...estimable Gray Lady has slipped a bit: she’s sometimes unreliable and sometimes a little weird. We must see, though: it didn’t used to be this way! She was a nice girl! For proof we need only turn to the Times itself, at the start of its original salad days, just before the turn of the century. In an October 1897 article, George P. Rowell explains the paper’s sudden success. Instead of cutting rate, the staff upped the ante with a “strict insistence upon absolutely trustworthy and impartial news...
...allows for feeble eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (an ironic reference to a nearby district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink or red. Glasses are for seeing, not for being seen. Shoes are comfortable and underwear is long. Even when the weather is windy and bitterly cold, busloads of seniors swarm the main street, called Jizo-dori, to pray for good health at two popular temples...
...grown to an asterisk. A person needed a sharp eye to see that the cracks in the Democratic monolith would topple it within a generation. The reasons could fill a book. And the fact that it started with Texans' abandoning the old "solid South" to vote for a gray warhorse, Dwight Eisenhower, should boost the spirits of John McCain. But as Hillary Clinton searches the wreckage for a way to rescue her campaign, these are the pieces she has to work with...
...cold, gray afternoon a year ago, I stood on the deck of our newly purchased, half-constructed house about an hour outside Shanghai, wondering what, exactly, I had gotten myself into. My wife, a Shanghai native, and I had moved back to China from New York City in the spring of 2004, and 21⁄2 years later we had decided to take the plunge. We bought a three-story, five-bedroom townhouse way out in the suburbs, in a town called New Songjiang, a place that was then - and remains now - very much a work in progress...
...Maharishi Mahesh Yogi may have regretted the association. The maharishi brought TM--the practice of exploring consciousness through meditation and chanting--to the U.S. in 1959, and with the cachet of star followers like the Rolling Stones and Mia Farrow, it became a multimillion-dollar global business. But the gray-haired guru was said to have become uncomfortable with its drug-using, counterculture fan base. After the Fab Four's celebrated visit, the band and its guru famously split. The maharishi was believed...