Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word from Moscow. There was very little more worth saying, but the good grey Times, in its own lofty brand of sensationalism, all but shook itself apart in keeping the story alive. Its Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury quoted unnamed "diplomatic observers" to imply that the U.S., after all, is responsible for the cold war. Perhaps Sta lin has in mind "putting his nation in the role of an actual mediator in the Korean negotiations," speculated Salisbury. Then he added: "It might work out better than some in the West would suppose. The Russians are very serious about such obligations...
...morning last October a mild-mannered, grey-haired little woman walked into the California Bank on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, quietly approached a teller's window, and laid a note on the counter. This done, she raised a paper bag in which she seemed to be holding a pistol, and waited patiently. The teller read the message: "This gun will talk and don't think I can't use it," and handed over $1,212 in currency...
Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower have chosen the church they will attend in Washington: the grey stone, round-arched National Presbyterian Church at Connecticut and N Street, eight blocks north of the White House. Formerly known as the Church of the Covenant, it is considered one of Washington's more fashionable places of worship, whose pewholders over the years included Presidents Jackson, Pierce, Polk, Grant, Cleveland and Buchanan. Baptist Harry Truman worshiped in its "President's pew" on each opening of Congress. Its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, who served as chaplain to the XXI Corps...
...Grey-Eyed People (by John D. Hess) was a two-tone play whose colors brutally clashed. It told of a suburban individualist who staged a hot-tempered crusade on behalf of a former Communist who ran afoul of the community. Part of the time the author-a veteran TV writer-seemed concerned with a pressing contemporary situation. The rest of the time he merely seemed concerned with what it could yield in laughs...
...light of mercy never shines on Akutagawa's parade of adulterers, murderers and bigots, he sometimes seems as cool and distant to human frailty as the grey shale that lines the heights of Fujiyama. But the sources of his own nihilism are made poignantly clear in a poem he penned a few months before his suicide...