Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes came in and a suet-grey day dawned, the brutal exposure of their own shortcomings confronted the French nakedly. They had longed for a new majority which could be strong and stable. They had reaped chaos, an Assembly of extremes far more ungovernable than the last...
...Switch to Salt. Bell Labs' war on the grey squirrel dates back to the turn of the century, when the company first became conscious of the squirrels' appetite for the lead sheath in which telephone wires are encased. After the squirrels gnaw through the sheath, linemen found, moisture gets at the paper insulation around the wires, causing a short circuit and disrupting communications. Engineers went to work to find out what it is in the lead that appeals to squirrels. According to one theory, the squirrels are suffering from a nutritional disorder caused by a lack of calcium...
Linemen of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. were out on the road last week busily repairing the damage done to telephone cables by one of their most persistent natural enemies: the Sciurus carolinensis, or Eastern grey squirrel. To the engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories, the problem is old stuff. In an average year, they figure, the grey squirrel gnaws through some half million dollars worth of U.S. cable. So far, no one has found a feasible way to stop...
After a half century of combating the grey squirrel, the experts are ready to give up. It is cheaper to treat the damage, Bell Labs has decided, than to try to prevent it. Said Engineer Smith last week, noting the reports of squirrel assaults on Wisconsin cable: "It's hopeless; we're suspending study of the problem...
...hero are among them. Something bad worries a GIRL. Her YOUNG MAN buys for her a small gift-'Sea Diabol' in small bottle. Girl likes this present and looks at it carefully. Suddenly small bottle drops out of her hands and is broken. SOMEBODY-IN-GREY appears on the spot and leads a GIRL...