Word: greying
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...dance card. In the myriad detail of the book is an irresistible ingenuousness. When she achieved her first success as a thriller writer, she bought a car. "I will confess," she says, "that of the two things that have excited me most in my life the first was my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen about forty years later." There follows a paragraph of Dame Agatha's worst prose extolling the "small, and slender" Elizabeth II, who told a story about soot falling from her chimney to put her guest at ease...
Dave Cowens is sitting around in a rugby shirt and a pair of grey cotton slacks, feeding his electric juicer with apple slices. As he gulps down the glasses of frothy, fresh-fruit juice, he sits quietly on a stool in his kitchen...
...playing for a team which is 1-7 and fighting with the New Jersey Nets for sole possession of the cellar in the NBA East. He does not seem worried that John Havlicek is closing in on age 40 or that JoJo White is starting to notice more grey hairs...
...once-respected Post leaves us misty-eyed, the decline of her rich cousin in Times Square can inspire only sniggers of contempt. Like an aging East Side beauty striving desperately to recapture her high-flown days on the deb circuit, the Grey Lady has transformed herself into a journalistic shoehorning maxi-bopper, forcing herself into modern dress and trying to persuade potential suitors that she really is the object of their dreams...
...Publisher Samuel S. McClure launched the first modern-day newspaper syndicate in 1884, the marketing of comics, columnists and other readymade editorial matter has become a large and lively industry. Some 300 syndicates are trying to flog a total of 10,000 features, from "Accent on Pets," to "Zane Grey's Best," with combined sales estimated at $100 million a year...