Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey stone jail at Kanab, the 49-year-old Holland retains his amiability. His story: after one unsuccessful attempt to reach the area, they took another route. When the car came to a gorge Wilson got out alone to continue the journey on foot. Holland went back to town, took a nap in his trailer, bought a bottle of whiskey and spent a gay evening with some prospector friends...
...barrio at 6:35 a.m. If I failed to return by 9 a.m., the troops would blow the place to smithereens. Taruc was waiting at the foot of Mt. Arayat, an extinct volcano. His lean figure was surrounded by the people of the barrio; like them, he wore a grey peasant shirt, brown pants and a wide-brimmed straw hat. The only question I asked was: "Do you accept the President's terms?" Taruc said: "I accept." He shook my hands warmly and said farewell to the barrio folk, many of them weeping. Minutes later we were speeding towards...
...Horse in the Living Room. Known to countless admirers as the Dancer, to track habitues as the Big Grey, and to a smaller group of intimates as the Big 'Orse, he is the Saturday matinee idol of several million TV viewers, many of whom have not seen a horse in the flesh since the milkman switched to a truck...
...thin, grey-haired man lurched forward, his shirtsleeved arms outstretched, his face askew with horror. With a cry of pain he pointed to a small boy in the silent group before him. "Get out!" he shouted...
...quarter of a century, some of the finest poetry written in the U.S. has come from a modest apartment on a rundown street in Brooklyn. But in recent years it has come only in a thin trickle. Since 1945, only three poems have been published by the charming grey-haired spinster who has won every U.S. poetry prize worth winning. Not that Marianne Moore had been idle in the last eight years; she had never worked so hard in her life. Now 66, she has finished her labor of love: a new verse translation of the 241 Fables...