Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelfth day, Secretary of the Army Robert Ten Broeck Stevens sat, grey-faced, before the stare of the television cameras. Across a crouched pack of news photographers, he faced the glower of Senator Joe McCarthy. The Secretary's right eye blinked irregularly and his right cheek twitched as he tried to follow the curves and hooks in McCarthy's questions. Using all of his formidable tricks of crossexamination, the Senator was trying to confuse the Secretary into a key admission: he wanted Stevens to say that McCarthy & Co. had never "threatened" the Army in an effort...
...said yes, it would, and he said, 'You know that little grey box up on the shelf? Well, you go in and get it.' I did, and he had me cup my hands while he dumped the contents into them. There was $19-all he had, his savings of 14 years, and he gave...
...Derby Trial real good," said Trainer Willie Molter. "He's a tough little guy. I hope that race helped him, because he needed tightening. But I'll be doggoned if I wanted it that tight." Willie Molter was talking about a spunky little (15 hands, 875 Ibs.) grey colt named Determine, and Determine had barely been nosed out in the Trial by Hasty Road, 1953's champion two-year...
...other three-year-olds. The crowd, betting against the jinx that only one California-bred colt had ever won in the-previous 79 runnings of the Derby, made California-bred Correlation the 3-to-1 favorite for No. So. There was talk of another Derby jinx: no grey colt has ever won, and Kentucky-bred Determine, owned by California Auto Dealer Andrew Crevolin, was undeniably a grey...
...that stage, Jockey Ray York, astride Determine, went to his whip, later admitted that he "beat the devil" out of the little grey. "At first I had to pull up and go around a couple of horses after I almost ran up on their heels," he said. "But at the eighth pole, when I looked around, I knew I had the race...