Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt, there is a better answer than Civil War II . . ." Perhaps, closer and closer draws the second Fort Sumter and the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. As for myself, a Southerner of 33, my reserve officer's uniform will always be olive drab, and never grey...
...Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. Dusk came. They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land...
...befogged undergraduate emerges from the grey haze of examination period, he stumbles through his one-day vacation, signs his two registration cards- and then finds himself confronted with a bewildering tangle of courses, most of which somehow meet at the same time. Completely stymied, he wanders aimlessly from course to course for a week, seeking that missing ideal combination. Professors generally denounce this "shopping," yet the faculty itself does little to prevent it. If courses within fields of concentration conflicted less, students would be able to choose their courses with greater satisfaction on all sides...
...Paul Dudley White, President Eisenhower's civilian heart specialist, sailed from Los Angeles for an ocean rendezvous with some grey whale cows, now calving off the Pacific coast of Lower California. Armed with two electrode-bearing harpoons, Heart Researcher White hoped to spear the cows lightly, chart the pulses of the 50-ft. (maximum) beasts while trailing them in a dory equipped with an electrocardiograph. Asked about his most important patient. Dr. White assured newsmen: "I'll be on call for the President all the while...
...preparing copy, researching markets, planning layouts, advising on public relations, and a score of other important selling services. For many an agency profits run about ¾% of billings; with that little margin nobody expects the advertising agency to revert to big-scale fee-splitting. Every man in a grey flannel suit knows that no modern ad agency competes on price, but on quality of service and results...