Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposals were far less ambitious than the main business before the conference-an Anglo-French general disarmament plan intended to lead in three slow stages from what the British call "the grey world of today" to a "white" world of mutual trust, in which all nuclear weapons would be banned. Precisely because they were more limited, however, the U.S. proposals had a far better chance of acceptance than the Anglo-French plan. The odds against even the U.S. proposals were high, for, as one conferee noted, if the Russians agreed to let foreign observers nose around the U.S.S.R., it would...
...thinning grey hair is worn at ordinary, not Claghorn, length, and he shuns the string tie and the diamond stickpin. Taciturn and humorless, he has neither the gift nor the inclination for the vivid rhetorical attacks on opponents that were the stock in trade of such old masters as South Carolina's Ben Tillman, who won the voters' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe...
...visitor as isolated as possible from the madding, and potentially maddened, crowds that might gather to meet the former Stalin henchman, but Malenkov was in no mood to play the wallflower. From the moment that he stepped from the plane at London's airport, doffing a broad-brimmed grey fedora and waving an amiable hand, Malenkov was plainly ready to charm the masses. Thanks to the Yard, there were no masses present, but Georgy made up for their lack by pumping the hands of a cordon of British dignitaries and aiming a volley of telling smiles into the distant...
...publishers know who wrote the original. It is "showing action" so far only in the South and Southwest, the market for which it was pointed. But such things have been known to spread, and soon lumbermen in jackboots, starlets in cashmere sweaters, and briefcase-toters in high-buttoned charcoal grey may all be able to wince...
Pound for pound, the most wanted metal in the U.S. today is nickel. Last week it commanded the highest premium paid for any metal on the grey market-$3 a lb., five times the going rate. With Government stockpiles and defense users gobbling up 40% of the free world's total output (v. only 10% for copper), automakers alone had to pay out more than $21 million last year in grey market premiums for the precious hardener for bumpers, crankshafts and a dozen other parts. The shortage is so critical that the Administration, while getting out of business elsewhere...