Word: greying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must not return. They must never return. We won't agree unless we are made to-forcibly." He added: "I don't overestimate our strength. I suppose the U.S. or U.N. could send in armies." He stopped and chuckled. Grinning slyly, dimpling his jowls like an old grey cherub, he said: "There is an Israeli story that people used to tell back in the early days when food was short. The optimist was the hungry settler who said: 'We don't have enough food, what we should do is send a few planes to bomb Washington...
...gilt seats and flows down upon the black-clad vendeuses stationed at every step on the stairway. Each buyer has her personal vendeuse, each vendeuse her jealously guarded clients. Many will return later to make their decisions. But others, momentarily unhinged, corral their vendeuses, rush off to a grey-curtained alcove, get out of their street dresses and demand to try on themselves one of the creations they have just seen modeled...
Through the grey streets early the following morning, a crowd walked behind the hearse to La Scala where 20,000 people were waiting. For two hours, housewives, dignitaries, workingmen, schoolboys, aged musicians filed through the gleaming foyer past the coffin lying in state under La Scala's crystal chandeliers. Then the visitors left and silently clustered about loudspeakers outside; inside the vast empty house, La Scala's 120-man orchestra played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica for its old master. Later, the coffin rested in the glow of candles and the glare of television...
Last week a slim, grey-eyed woman in a blue-bordered sari was briskly going about the business of making Calcutta a better place to die in-and to ward off death when possible. Mother Teresa and 62 sisters of the six-year-old Roman Catholic Order of the Missionaries of Charity are running one of Asia's most remarkable missions at the very gate of the temple of Kali, Hindu goddess of destruction...
...years) when he should have enjoyed the bounding prime of youth, a Utah beagle's muzzle was grey, his bones brittle, his joints creaky. Reason: since puppyhood, he had received regular injections of radioactive isotopes at the University of Utah's Beagleville (TIME, Dec. 27, 1954). Radiobiologists guessed that constant exposure to internal radiation somehow diminished the beagle's natural resistance to stress, accelerating the aging process. Further studies of radioactive beagles may provide clues to the nature of the aging process in man, suggest ways to impede...