Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, on TV, Eisenhower looked shockingly old. His blond hair and eyebrows tended to disappear. Walter Tibbals, a veteran TV executive, had Ike's eyebrows touched up and tinted his face with make-up (not, initially, without a struggle), hung a grey curtain"behind him, and lighted him with magenta spots. But the general's big new dark-rimmed spectacles were his own idea-"If you have to wear glasses," Winston Churchill once told him, "make a prop out of them...
...little while last week it looked as though scientists might be well on the way to finding a safe, cheap contraceptive to be taken by mouth. The journal Science, grey with age and scholarly respectability, gave its lead position and a 12½-page spread to the preliminary findings of Dr. Benjamin F. Sieve, a Boston physician, on what he calls "a new antifertility factor." On its face, the report looked promising indeed, but scientists who have spent many years looking for an oral contraceptive were far from satisfied...
...City hospitals, Dr. Sieve now practices in his own clinic, alone except for six technicians. He has had a remarkable variety of medical interests: the ductless glands, nutrition, hemorrhage, fertility and now antifertility. , Eleven years ago Dr. Sieve was among those who proclaimed that para-aminobenzoic acid would restore grey hair to its original color. By now, the medical profession has discarded this idea...
...rarely has much to cheer about in the way of painters. A fortnight ago in Dublin, Irish critics got a look at the work of a touseled young (25) man named Paddy Swift* and tossed their caps in the air. Paddy's 30 canvases are as grey and gloomy as Dublin itself-harshly realistic paintings of dead birds and rabbits, frightened-looking girls and twisted potted plants. Their fascination is in the merciless, sharply etched details, as oppressive and inquiring as a back-room third degree...
...loans, one for $4,700,000, another for $1,650,000 with the help of Washington Lawyer Joseph Rosenbaum. Later, Senator Capehart charged that Central Iron & Steel had sold scarce steel to a pocket corporation which had in turn resold it in Chicago's grey market for $75,000 profit. Said he: "[The sale] was simply a payoff, and somebody made $75,000 for doing nothing." Control of the corporation was held in option by Lawyer Rosenbaum, who denied the charges, and by ex-RFC Employee E. Merl Young. His wife, a White House secretary, was given a mink...