Word: greying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...trail have been controversial. "In the last 40 years, our country has voted 10 times for President. Democrats won only three of those times, and the man who won two of those elections is with us today," Clinton said, gesturing to her right where Bill sat in a dark grey suit. "We made tremendous progress during the '90s under a Democratic President, with a flourishing economy and our leadership for peace and security respected around the world...
...Swamp, home of Hawkeye’s infamous still, which kept the camp in high spirits. Farewell to the mess tent, the only place in camp that refused to patronize. Farewell to the most recent additions to the cast. To Colonel Potter who saw the war as a Zane Grey western. To Charles Emerson Winchester III, Harvard’s own representative to the 4077th. To B.J. Honnicut, whose quiet manner let him get away with murder. Most of all, farewell to the oldtimers. To the camp fashion consultant, Corporal Klinger. To Father Mulcahey, the perfect priest in the Korean...
...There were more significant meanings in Judge Clayton’s decision than a new grey shade to the opaque of California legalism. Howl, not a very good poem, became an immediate best seller, and North Beach—which already gave the novel Jack Kerouac and On the Road—was discovered by big as well as little magazines...
...sometime during sophomore fall; how junior year I once grimaced at the sight of my roommate wearing a T-shirt under his dress shirt (similar to the look I sport in the picture); and how this year my wardrobe consists of lux sweaters in various shades of blue and grey and moccasins by Ermenegildo Zegna—I look back at that picture and wonder if I’m even the same person.In a state of panic, I fish out those old cargo pants—still in my closet, I’m very sentimental?...
...took this as confirmation that we journalists were, in fact, as desperately dorky and socially backward a tribe as it seemed. The DJ was playing remixed Kanye West from his laptop, and Eric Dane, the man they call Dr. McSteamy from Grey's Anatomy, was holding court a few feet away. I could have salvaged what dignity I still had, and walked out in principled protest. But then I saw Isiah Whitlock Jr., the actor who played the corrupt Sen. Clay Davis on HBO's The Wire, standing with his hands at his side. Before I knew what...