Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unkindest Cut. The car halted a few blocks from the Kremlin at Kuibyshev Street No. 4, a grey, six-story building with red marble columns and a sign in gold lettering that reads: "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union." A thermometer mounted above the massive door registered a temperature of 40° F., but it was even chillier inside...
...policies that slowly were making Russia a less revolutionary place to live in: Khrushchev's "peaceful coexistence" with the West, and his ever greater emphasis on consumer production at the expense of heavy industry and armaments. They are members of the generation that has been labeled "Communists in grey flannel suits...
...after all, who will be sacrificed? Merely those musty grey beings who have thus far never left the building, who will run out shrieking horribly when the first window is open. Some can run to House libraries, some to their rooms, some to the infinitely more secure bowers of Amherst or Yale...
When George Murphy speaks, the easy Irish charm of an old-style city ward heeler pours forth. His blue eyes, set off by pink cheeks and carefully coifed, grey-streaked hair, throw a friendly glint. At the slightest sound of applause, Murphy is transported happily back to the heyday, 25 years ago, when he song-and-danced his way across the nation's cinema screens. Then the ham in him surfaces, and he talks and talks and talks until his aides tug at him and tell him it is time to quit...
...appointments-mostly ceremonial and out of public view. For a war memorial dedication at Quebec's historical old Citadel, only 1,500 of 2,500 invited guests bothered to show up; and no sooner were the formal ceremonies under way than another minor demonstration erupted outside the high grey wall surrounding the Citadel. The next day was spent quietly on shipboard, entertaining special guests at a state luncheon...