Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near British Guiana's capital of Georgetown last week, East Indian terrorists attacked sugar-cane cutters with acid bombs and rifles. In the capital, city officials decided against holding the customary public ceremony as Sir Richard Luyt, the colony's new British-appointed Governor, replaced Sir Ralph Grey, who is moving on to the Bahamas. To prevent riots, the swearing-in ceremony took place on a Georgetown wharf only a few feet from the Canadian ship that brought Sir Richard from Trinidad. Once again, the fuse was lit in British Guiana, and holding the match-as usual...
...northwest part of the mound. The much-eroded surface layer was probably the remains of the last city to occupy the mound, apparently abandoned about 700 B.C. A few feet below the surface were the floors, streets and wall-footings of an older city that was destroyed by fire. Grey wood ash was everywhere, sometimes mixed with charred beams and mud from fallen roofs...
Taking a mineral water cure for "liver insufficiency," the Shah of Iran, 44, daily commuted the 25 miles from Florence to the Montecatini spa in his Mercedes or new grey Ferrari 330 coupé, hitting speeds of up to 130 m.p.h. The Shah's liver perked up after a fortnight, and his wife, Farah Diba, 25, came on down from Innsbruck, where she had been skiing since the Olympics. Then they tooled into Rome where Fair Farah and the monarch, who had been working so hard at his land-and government-reform programs that his doctors had ordered...
Since he couldn't take it with him, Auto Millionheir Horace Dodge did the next best thing. He balled up his $2,500,000 estate so completely that everybody involved will be grey before getting a penny. Next to spending money, Dodge's favorite pastime seems to have been writing wills and codicils (at least eleven), and for a finishing touch he provided that the last one would be void if his mother outlived him. Naturally she did, and then led the charge of the litigant brigade. Though Mama is worth $65 million herself, she misses...
Before granting a new patent, 1,000 examiners now have to dig laboriously through more than 10 million U.S. and foreign patents that fill the agency's grey granite building in Washington...