Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clock. Four-fifths of the vote was still to be counted, but it was all over for caution's good grey grandmother, the New York Times. EISENHOWER WINS IN A SWEEP, it decided at 10 o'clock sharp. By that time. Virginia's twelve electoral votes. Maryland's nine, apparently New Jersey's 16 were Eisenhower's, and he was running ahead in Pennsylvania, the state the Democrats had said they had to take in order to win. The Stevenson forces en joyed a few slim sunbeams-14 sure electoral votes in North Carolina...
...seemed pitifully young. A correspondent noted a boy who could not have been more than ten years old holding himself at the ready with a rifle as tall as himself. Beside him was a 15-year-old girl with a submachine gun and a forage cap on her head. Grey with the fatigue of four days' ceaseless fighting, almost falling from exhaustion, they solemnly welcomed the foreigners: "We greet you in the name of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters!" Some carried machine-gun ammunition belts slung around their shoulders, and out of almost every pocket and above every inch...
...Crimson defense, which customarily collapses in the late periods, was unusually strong throughout. Captain Grey Hodnett, alternating between center-half and center-forward, was the big difference in defensive play. Chris Provenson turned in his best performance of the year at left full-back, while right full-back Don Beaver contributed his usual good play...
Munro is expected to stick with Hank Holmes, Tom Bernheim, Jim Shue, Ken McIntosh, and Robin Magowan in the line (from left to right). John Felstiner, Captain Grey Hodnett, and Tony Oberschall will be at halfback, with Chris Provenson and Don Beaver at fullback. Elliot Finkelstein will be in the nets...
...automobiles lined up at stoplights. Many of the cars seemed to be Oldsmobiles; or were they Packards or Plymouths? Not that it matters, because they all looked alike--"streamlined"--with from two to four headlights projecting from the front. Their drivers also looked alike, perhaps because they all wore grey-beige topcoats and felt hats, perhaps only because none of them smiled. Each one sat in his huge car, staring ahead tightlipped, with his window rolled up as if to say "No solicitors allowed." Each one sat there in his car, waiting intently for his light to turn green...