Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grey Utopia. Last weekend, with Poole and 32 other top Tories who were summoned to the Prime Minister's country home, Macmillan started drafting the party's broad, long-term program of social and economic reform. Its theme, said Macmillan, will be "Modernize-not Nationalize." In his fiercest attack on Labor in many months, the Prime Minister charged in a speech to Glasgow Tories that "the Socialists have nothing to offer except old threats supported by sly promises." The Opposition, declared Macmillan, still clings to its "old-hat" view of a socialist utopia, in which "everybody is more...
...grey-gowned figure in charge looks like a visitor from another planet. Between skull cap and mask, his head sprouts a startling pair of binocular spectacles. His hands move with confident precision and his even voice snaps with authority, but his very words seem part of an alien language-a communication designed solely for his colleagues...
...flag." The problem was to turn it into "a visual situation only. How could it be altered so that it could become a painting?" Sometimes, Johns painted the flag in its normal colors, and the flag became flag first and then painting. Sometimes he made it all grey or all white, and made the painting appear first. He was also mesmerized by the seeming permanency of the flag: "I stopped painting it when they changed the number of stars...
Trailing Candy Spots, in order, will be Never Bend, Chateaugay, Bonjour, No Robbery, on My Honor, Grey Pet, Royal Tower, and Rajah Noor...
...wealth of the Arab world glitters in Beirut, but the citadel of Arab finance is an undistinguished grey-walled building in Amman on the edge of the Jordan desert. It is the Arab Bank, the first as well as the largest Arab-owned bank. Its bluff, barrel-chested founder and chairman is Abdul Hameed Shoman, 75, a onetime haberdashery peddler who ranged the U.S. before returning home to open a bank dedicated as much to helping Arabs as it is to making profits. Shoman excels at making helping pay. Last week, as the Arab Bank released its 1962 report, everything...