Word: greying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grey-headed Bruins were from the teams of the '30's and '40's and were a little balder and little slower than their opponents. "I've never seen these guys before. but they're pros and they're long on savvy," coach Jim Hutchinson warned his players before the game...
...What was the great grey green greasy Limpopo River all set about with...
...widow remarrying money. The current Dolly (does it really matter?) is Ethel Merman. She looks like an inflated scarecrow and struts about on stage in absolute refusal to act. As she blows kisses to the middle-aged ladies, recites her lines in a clarion voice, and charms a grey, indeterminate audience, it becomes apparent that no one but the chorus members-least of all the audience-cares about the play. It is an excuse for going outside, for spending money, for making money, for exchanging one boredom for another...
...Jack Palance) amble vaguely across Southwestern cattle country, swapping hand-rolled cigarettes and saddle-sore lines that would make a dogie bleat in an guish. Screenwriters Lukas Heller and David Goodman apparently drew their ideas from The Misfits and The Wild Bunch and hawg-tied them with early Zane Grey dialogue. The resulting wrangle is a tale of aging cowpokes in a changing West that ain't worth the price of a good branding iron...
...case, the one person who might have displayed outrage, Robert Bowie, gave no indication of any distress as he chatted with the swarms of media people. He had taken the time to put on a grey Brooks Brothers suit and a tie before coming over, and he was very much a man in control. No, he had not worried in advance about possible violence at the CFIA. No, he didn't think any files had been removed from the building in anticipation of such an incident. No, he didn't think X (one of the more prominent student propagandists against...