Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cows as though the margarine-makers were going to throw them all into giant hamburger machines; they predicted balefully that herds would be so depleted that little babies would be denied milk. They cried that oleo was full of worms and that its natural color was tattletale grey. Oleo's partisans replied that butter had been found to contain "insects, hair, moth scales and something with a Latin name...
Personal Traits. He is big (6 ft. 1 in., 200 Ibs.) and barrel-chested, black-browed and bespectacled, with thinning grey hair brushed carefully across a high-domed head. He dresses meticulously, wears custom-made blue or grey suits (his wife chooses the cloth), recently adopted a diplomat's Homburg. No backslapper, he is well-liked but something of a lone wolf in the Senate cloakrooms. In private he is amiable, with a quick, irreverent wit. When speaking he uses a sweeping sidearm gesture like a baseball pitcher's, rolls out his rounded, often eloquent periods in full...
Private Life. He and his wife have lived in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel for the last 18 years. After a day at the Capitol, he gets into a pair of old grey slacks, settles down to skim official reports, read history, or clip newspapers for his scrapbooks, tries to be in bed by 9 o'clock. He limits his drinking to one whiskey & soda before dinner, smokes only denicotinized cigars. In 1932, he was bothered by shortness of breath and pounding of his heart under exertion. Doctors diagnosed it as a "slow heart," but nothing organically wrong...
...Adolf Hitler felt fairly confident about the future. He sent an order to Sweden for grey granite; he planned a giant victory monument in Berlin...
Three years later a Roman Catholic divine, impatient for the long-expected conversion, sent a scout to the Newman camp. "He will come soon," was the excited report. The emissary had noticed that punctilious Newman was wearing a layman's grey trousers-a sign that he considered himself no longer a clergyman...