Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Left Bank of the Seine, which gets its popular name from its address: 37 Quai d'Orsay. On a grey, windy afternoon last week, as barges moved slowly upriver and traffic jams clogged the bridges and boulevards of Paris, Couve sat at his leather-topped, bronze-filigree desk. There had been 90 minutes of Gaullist oratory the day before, and now Couve was leafing through two pink paper folders, fat with world reaction and the interminable word traffic of modern diplomacy. A red slash across the corner of a paper meant an outgoing cable, a green slash an incoming...
...Lake Balaton, a narrow, 48-mile-long "inland sea" just 56 miles from Budapest. A renowned Central European watering spot since the days of the Romans, Balaton is a pleasant place to visit even without the added incentive of reunion. Its delicate wines-such as the Badacsony szurke barat (Grey Friar)-are eminently sippable, and the shallow, turquoise-blue lake, ringed with breezy cafes and villas, has a bright, Mediterranean air about it. Of the 40,000 Western tourists who visited Balaton last season, 60% were Germans...
...glass looked as transparent as the standard windowpane, but scientists at the Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society were impressed by its strange qualities. On brief exposure to sunlight the glass turned grey. Back in the shade, or in ordinary artificial light, it promptly turned clear as window glass again...
...invented along with Dr. William H. Armistead, contains submicroscopic crystals of silver halide, 128 million billion of them per cubic inch. They do not affect its color or transparency, but strong visible or ultraviolet light turns the crystals to metallic silver, which absorbs light and makes the glass look grey. The same thing happens to the silver halide particles in photographic film, but their darkening is permanent. The silver atoms in the glass are held so tightly that they cannot move away from the place where they were formed. When the light that creates them is cut oft, they reunite...
...This is the most important document ever to come before a Church Assembly," said the Rt. Rev. Kenneth Riches, Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. The document is a dry, statistic-laden paperback called The Deployment and Payment of the Clergy. But behind that grey title it is an incisive, reform-demanding anatomy of Christian Britain and the Church of England...