Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tate: Aren't you a Robin Hood in a grey flannel suit...
...other side of the Capitol, the House Rules Committee continued to hold what it euphemistically calls hearings on the Administration's civil rights bill. Under the direction of Virginia's Judge Howard Smith-who reluctantly will send the bill to the floor after a long, grey line of Southern civil rights opponents have had their say-the proceedings were not so much informative as they were entertaining, which was all right with Judge Smith too. When Ohio's Republican Congressman William M. McCulloch testified in behalf of the bill, Smith tried to tease him into admitting that...
...concierges of Paris, like French shopgirls, come from a single mold. But where shopgirls are uniformly stocky, black-haired, pertly dark-eyed and, no matter how unpretty, filled with a lively charm, concierges have pulled-back hair, grey skin and grey souls. The typical concierge wears round-frame glasses, black stockings, a shapeless dress and old felt slippers, and, in the profane opinion of most Parisians, is rude, inquisitive, grasping, lazy, and brimming with malign gossip...
...obvious that the girl had talent. She could talk to a television camera as if it were her pastor. She could smile lovingly at a new car and slip into the driver's seat while letting only a proper amount of knee show. She had a Grey Lady's sincerity and a sorority sister's charm. And she earned $150,000 a year as the Chrysler Girl on television. Then she suddenly announced she was giving it all up for grand opera. That's right, honey, her friends told her, lots of luck...
...Nowhere did the disparity between East and West come clearer than at the crossing points themselves. West Berliners cruised through the Wall in gleaming Volkswagens and Mercedeses or walked across warmly clad in fur coats, bright Bogner ski pants and ruddy complexions. The East Berliners who greeted them looked grey and chunky by contrast in their long, drab overcoats and Russian-style galoshes. Their streets, their homes looked much the same: empty, and a bit forlorn...