Word: greying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race ground through grey dawn and a fine spring day, Fons blazed along in fine style. Coming into the last lap, less than 25 miles from the finish, he was running third. He could not have known, but the Ferrari team had the race won. His grizzled teammate, Piero Taruffi, 50, had already finished in first place. Far back, Britain's Stirling Moss, driving a Maserati, the Ferrari's only strong competitor, had lost his brakes and almost crashed in a roadside cemetery. The other Maserati competitors had also either folded or faded...
Between the Sahara Desert's ocean of drifting sands on the north and Kipling's "great, grey-green, greasy" Limpopo River in this land unknown were geographical wonders to rival any in the world: great lakes as large as those in North America, rivers challenging in majesty the Amazon and Mississippi, crashing waterfalls higher and wider than Niagara, and snow-clad mountains on the equator's rim soaring skyward beyond any in Europe. And there today, in the limitless stretches of land over which these giants stood silent sentinel for centuries, is a whole new world...
...forbidding, grey Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary a convict petitioned the Department of Justice for the removal from his chest of a tattoo vowing eternal devotion to "Mary"; he was about to be released and wanted to marry a girl with another name. Over the Rio Grande Immigration Service patrolmen peered from their light plane in search of the Mexican wetbacks who would, if they could, slip across the border in illegal droves to work on U.S. ranches. In Tacoma, Wash, a federal grand jury accused David Daniel Beck, a labor giant with a turnip torso, of , cheating on his income taxes...
Television parties outnumber movie parties four to one, but oldtimers find them lacking in the oldtime glamour. Says one veteran: "Too many men in empty grey flannel suits and expressions." Says Gossipist Jimmy Starr: "At parties the TV people are on one side of the room, and the movie people are on the other side. TV and movies haven't jumped the social...
Though Richardson was later ordered reinstated by the State Supreme Court, his case snowballed. Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox Bow Incident) accused the administration of "seeking to reduce the university to a manageable mediocrity," handed in his resignation as a lecturer in English. Economist Arthur L. Grey Jr. declared that the university was "in full retreat" from democracy, and Biologist Thomas Little resigned after accusing Stout of granting faculty raises on the basis of "favoritism...