Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chelsea Town Hall, where he attended a dance for West African students and made a little speech, the British Labor Party's great grey grumbler was introduced as "The One & Only Aneurin Bevan." Said Bevan in reply: "When I heard your chairman refer to me as "the one & only Aneurin Bevan, I heaved a sigh of relief-for if there were more of me, I would be declared an illegal association...
Since that day, which Chaim Weizmann recorded in his memoirs, Mount Scopus has been transfigured more than once by the people of Israel. Over the years, 17 grey concrete buildings have gone up. There are streamlined laboratories, the greatest library in the Near East, schools of law, agriculture, humanities and Oriental studies. The only trouble is, the Hebrew University can use none of these buildings. Since 1948, the road to Mount Scopus has been under the control...
...spite of its desperate exile, it intends to keep right on expanding. This year it will have the largest enrollment (3,000 students) in its history, and it has recently opened a full-fledged medical school. Its goal for 1954: 4,000 students -with or without the silent grey bastions of Mount Scopus...
...associates, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. On top of all this, Crown built his Materials Service Corp. of Chicago into the biggest supplier of construction materials in the U.S. Crown has achieved much of his success by a simple method: he has boldly staked his money on enterprises that would grey the hair of many a Wall Street speculator...
Douglas Southall Freeman's marathon biography disposes of this notion once & for all. Though Freeman writes without grace and often loses his story in a wilderness of battle detail, he does bring out Washington's heroic stature. Simply by piling up grey mountains of fact, Freeman shows that those who snipe at Washington for not being a great thinker or military strategist neglect something more important: that he was a great leader...