Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told, 'We've got a knife for him.' I looked around with them, eased quickly away into a less aggressive part of the crowd. I also had the ignominious experience of being part of the mob chasing Chicago LIFE Correspondent Paul Welch and his photographer partner Grey Villet. I saw Grey holding his long lens out of the crowd's reach. I started over in that direction, along with the mob. A fellow asked me, 'What's goin' on?' His answer came from a stocky butcher-boy type who yelled...
...Rock. (Police Chief Marvin Potts apparently was not so sure: he judiciously stayed in his office.) But right at the beginning the Little Rock cops made their first and greatest mistake: they let a crowd begin to gather. It was small at first, and quiet. Asked one man in grey working clothes of another: "What're you doing here?" Came the reply: "Just came by to see what's doing...
Though a devoted Communist, Tito was also a romantic-and a ham-to whom form was important. He saw himself as a fiery revolutionary, 1917 model, waving a Red flag on the barricades. Stalin, fighting for his own life and that of his grey, monolithic regime, wanted no Balkan hothead making the Allies suspicious of Communism's ultimate intentions. He was to declare airily: "I will shake my little finger, and there will be no more Tito." This exciting, carefully documented book helps explain why, although there is no more Stalin, there is still a Tito...
Four Geniuses & a Dolt. The book begins in epilogue with grey-eyed, whey-faced Edward Enger lying gravely ill on a bed in his mansion after a coronary attack. His wife is beside the bed and beside herself: "Oh my darling, my life, my blood, my hope...
...Grey Flannels. The Revlon account had hit $6,000,000 when Revson last year abandoned Norman, Craig & Kummel, badly rocking the agency (1956 billings: $25.8 .million). Before he shifted completely to BBDO, fourth-biggest agency (1956 billings: $194.5 million), Revson took the precaution of siphoning off part of his business to three smaller firms. But the big problems flowed into BBDO along with Revson. The biggest was the fact that Client Revson demanded top-quality advertising and simply worked too hard for the admen to keep up. The weary admen began agreeing with Revson's bad ideas as well...