Word: greying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the crowd in the U.S. Senate's caucus room, David Daniel Beck had his three-diamond ring turned into the palm of his left hand ("I always wear it that way because the light flashes in my eyes"). In his lightweight, grey, tailor-made suit,* his double teardrop (one white, one red) cravat and his toothiest smile, Teamster Boss Beck was the picture of resplendent confidence. "Are you nervous?" asked a reporter. "Nervous?" barked Beck...
Side by side, the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain rode to the U.S. Air Force base in Bermuda on a grey, drizzly morning this week. At the base they chatted amiably for a while before the President boarded the Columbine II for the four-hour flight to Washington. "I hope I am not making you late for church," said Dwight Eisenhower. "Oh no," Harold Macmillan assured him. After a cordial parting, Ike climbed aboard and Mac raised both arms in a farewell V. The historic four-day Big Two conference that had just ended...
...missilemen contemplate Ben Schriever, a tomorrow's man who often runs his command post in a grey flannel suit or tweed sports coat and slacks, who decorates his command post with an impressionistic oil painting of the U.S.'s first liquid-fuel rocket superimposed upon a plumed Chinese war rocket supposedly used by the Kin Tartars at the seige of Kaifeng (12321,* they recognize him as tomorrow's man. "Discerning, thinking leader . . . outstanding and extremely tenacious manager ... he has a big project concept" they say, adding that they "have great regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever...
...instead of joining in the parliamentary free-for-all, grey, old (72) Republican Ismet Inonu, Turkey's respected World War II President who was so spectacularly overturned by Menderes' Democrats in the 1950 elections, rose from his third-row Opposition bench to say: "I appreciate the pressure on the government to pass this budget. I am prepared to help, provided I have a promise to open a debate on the problems of the political regime." To start with, gruffed the old pasha, let the government reconstitute the little province of Kirsehir, which it split up three years...
Third Day shows the grey dawn of the first landscape, with the first signs of life emerging from primordial chaos. Says Kovarsky: "This tree has the twist of a motherly woman. The cloud is the symbol of rain. The red seed, poppy seed, is a symbol of growth. The sun-light...