Word: greying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheechako (newcomer), Mike Stepovich knows his country, puts in a solid day's work in his office in Juneau's grey stone Federal Building, deals with the 47 appointive territorial boards and commissions, oversees emergency work projects, orders examination of fiscal programs that will help prove Alaska's ability to stand alone, confers with Washington and territorial officials, studies his mail, e.g., "We the undersigned students have been recently examined by Dr. Brownlee and 60 having been found with defective teeth, do humbly petition our Governor, Mike Stepovich, to send us a dentist...
...hour hand of the clock high on the wall of the National Assembly crept past 3, the hour of final reckoning arrived for the Fourth Republic. In hushed silence the Deputies watched General Charles de Gaulle in a single-breasted grey suit stride to the podium, heard him proclaim in less than seven minutes the terms on which he had accepted the summons to power...
Little noticed in the frenetic rejoicing-put on daily so that Algerians would not lose heart while Paris hesitated-was a tall, slim man with the cold, blue-grey eyes of Flanders. Yet of all the gaudy generals and pompous politicians who harangued the Algiers mob, none had so good a claim to speak for the insurrection as 39-year-old Léon Delbecque. Despite his modest title-vice president of the Committee of Public Safety-it was Delbecque who had provided the organizational brains of the Algiers revolt...
...Master Takizaki, who had greatly influenced Mark Tobey. His work became an exciting blend of abstraction and traditional Japanese painting. At his best, Horiuchi manages to combine a sense of the mysterious depths of an ancient heritage (often suggested by weathered scraps decorated with archaic Japanese calligraphy) with moody, grey and color-flecked images of Pacific landscape, mists and rain. Having attained a point of equipoise between East and West, Horiuchi's goal is "to impart something of the peace and serenity of an Eastern memory into the vital and shocking life of a country I love very much...
Interdenominational Union Theological Seminary is a grey Gothic quadrangle nestled in the center of one of the most prestigious concentrations of culture in the U.S. Surrounding it on Morningside Heights, overlooking the Hudson River on one side and Harlem's tenements on the other, are Columbia University and its Teachers College, plus Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Riverside Church, Juilliard School of Music, International House, and the Interchurch Center, which will be headquarters for many denominations as well as the National and World Council of Churches...