Word: greying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest that the person responsible for your article visit the children's department of the local public library, especially during story hour, before drawing further generalizations about "the grey eminences that keep things so grey...
...into a family partnership to get him on his way. They limited their entertaining primarily to important P. & G. people, resolved never, never to go into debt-in fact refused to buy a house until they could do it without a mortgage. In due time he bought his present grey-green stucco house (known to visiting relatives as Grand Central Station) at 3478 Vista Terrace in the Hyde Park section of Cincinnati...
...Altar for el-Shaddai. Author Hill draws on imagination to describe the vale of Shittim, location of the wicked cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, though with benefit of modern geological research. "A pall of thin, grey haze hovered ominously over the valley and the smell of sulphur filled the air. There were places . . . where naphtha oozed from the ground, slimy and flammable. There was also asphalt (bitumen) for the gathering . . . Petroleum gases and light fumes of sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this...
...left side of his skull, above and forward of the ear, and tore out a piece of his brain. In an emergency operation, Neurosurgeon William Lipscomb could do little more than cut away the surrounding damaged brain-so that Congrave lost a total of about ten teaspoonfuls of grey matter-and tie off the severed arteries...
During the quietest hours one night at Salt Lake County General Hospital, a University of Utah medical student noticed that the floor tiles seemed to be pulsating and growing alternately lighter and darker. A colleague saw the head of a grey-haired woman sticking out of the doorway of an all-male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...