Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maroon Rolls-Royce purred through the rainy evening to the London Clinic, and out stepped Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 38. She had come to end a 28-year estrangement between the royal family and the owner of a grey Rolls parked opposite: the Duchess of Windsor, 68. In a fourth-floor sitting room, the two women, both dressed in properly cheerful red, met by the chair of Edward, Duke of Windsor, 70, sitting up for the first time in three weeks after a series of eye operations. What was said in 25 minutes-at the first meeting since Edward...
...buttoned it on over his soiled blue overalls. For a moment he lagged behind, morose and contemplative. Then, clapping his hands together, he lunged forward, linked arms with King and began to sing. "We Shall Overcome" echoed back through the ranks out into the streets and into the shabby grey houses...
...walked ahead, along the sidewalk, to get a better view. An elderly Negro lady with gold teeth and a faded grey suit pulled me aside and whispered. "Thank you all, thank you. The good Lord has sent you down here to save us all. We all of us want to thank you." On her porch three more ladies were sitting on a grey wooden swing. They waved timidly and nodded...
Under slate-grey skies, U.S. Marine landing craft plowed through 5-ft. waves in the Bay of Danang, came to a halt with gravelly crunches, and dropped their ramps. Out poured hundreds of U.S. marines in full battle dress, with M-14 rifles held at high port. They were the vanguard of a 3,500-man force, the first marines since Korea to hit the beaches in a combat zone, and the first U.S. combat-as opposed to "advisory" -troops to arrive in South Viet...
...seven nights a week, NBC will be kaleidoscopically ablaze with 14 old shows and 13 new. Then the only off-color notes will be sounded by I Dream of Jeannie for a half-hour, Convoy for an hour, and an occasional feature film. Jeannie will have light grey hair, because Jeannie is a genie, and getting her out of a bottle is a ponderous camera trick in color; Convoy will be deflowered because it incorporates black-and-white wartime film clips. Otherwise the prime-time rainbow will be unblemished. And off prime time, NBC will continue to colorcast the Johnny...