Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most dazzling new sight in Paris is-Paris. For decades, the face of the city was as grey as its ubiquitous cats. But since 1959, squads of yellow-slickered workmen have scrambled up metal scaffoldings to hose down and sand-rub buildings and monuments encrusted with the industrial soot of the 20th century. The grime fighters have now cleaned more than a third of Paris' buildings, and visitors to Paris are discovering a beauteous city they never saw before, the city that De Balzac called the color of cream...
...that Clevelanders were afflicted with a sudden thirst; on their second visit, instead of getting another shot of syrup, they donated a blood sample. A technician smeared the blood on chemically treated cardboard. In a matter of moments the results were obvious. If the cardboard changed color from grey to blue, sugar from the corn syrup had not returned to normal level in the drinker's blood, showing a distinct possibility of diabetes...
...plunged happily into thickets of outstretched hands, ignoring the blazing June sun to deliver elegant little speeches, without notes and without hesitation. Caught in a rainstorm at Beauvais, De Gaulle stood through the Mayor's long speech without hat or raincoat as streams of water ran down his grey suit. Did this mean that De Gaulle would be able to go ahead with his ambitious ten-nation swing through Latin er aides were watching, ready to recommend a drastic cut in the itinerary-or even cancellation-at the slightest sign of flagging strength...
...high civil servant), and I do not lack intelligence." To Paris-Presse he sent a sketch of the murder scene that showed the killer ("me") and the boy ("him") in the exact positions Inspector Samson had calculated. An accompanying note said: "Expect another dramatic development." It came when a grey-haired man in his 40s, dressed as a worker, handed Jean-Luc's Bugs Bunny comic book to a ticket puncher...
Concrete Characters. Sharply handsome, touched with grey at the temples, neatly dressed, educated in the Ivy League and trained in television, Gilroy must trouble the sight of all the pale poets who feel that wine, whiskers and Paris are the only stimulants of art. He works in a little $30-a-month office on the main street of Goshen, near his home in Orange County, N.Y., where he lives with his wife and three sons...