Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nelson W. Aldrich, Philip C. Berolzheimer, Edward L. Burlingame, Geoffrey T. Chalmers, Richard P. Chapman, Jr., Robert Dubinsky, Eric Franck, Grey Hodnett, Henry C. Holmes, Alfred M. Hoyt (Capt.), David C. Jordan, Frederick W. Kaufmann, Archibald I. Leyashmeyer, George W. McGarrity, Thomas B. Molholm, Grayson M. P. Murphy, III, Francis L. S. Newell, Stephen Parker, James K. Polese, Clifford A. Rand, Jr., Stephen P. Reibel, Michael S. Robertson, Erik J. Stapper, Ingvars J. Vitands, Harry J. Wexler, John M. P. Donovan...
They knew it was going to be an important interview, because they all came in grey-flannel suits--even the ones from Columbia and Manhattan Colleges. There were twenty-five of them, five from Harvard, crowded into a small room, and the room was painted grey and altogether it was a gloomy atmosphere. Every half-hour an older man in a blue pin-striped suit came in and called off a name. The name adjusted the knot of his tie and went into a room down the hall where five other men in pin-striped suits sat around a table...
...eleven at night, just as someone was calculating how many man hours had been spent waiting, a lookout reported that the pin-stripes were coming. the twenty-five grey flannels jumped to their feet, smoothed their wrinkles and stood erect, wearing the same bright grins they had worn in the interview room. The chief pinstripe said something about what a hard choice it was. Then he announced the winners, and the others shook their hands and murmured congratulations. Then, with a final, faded smile in he direction of the pin-stripes, they walked quickly out the door and into...
Next day, dressed in a chalk-striped grey suit, the Kabaka of Uganda sat in the gallery of the House of Commons and heard British democracy wrestle with its conscience (see below...
...where she describes her arrival in the Paris she loves. "How old the customs men were, how crumpled their uniforms! They did not seem proud to be French citizens; there was a hangdog look about them . . . The people are poorly dressed; the women have colorless, frizzy hair, the men grey faces, and they walk as if defeated . . . The weather was grey. Paris seemed numb ... I would have to relearn France and get back into my own skin...