Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone a fair way during his eight years as mayor. Under Daley, Chicago has a new rhythm as exciting as any in the city's lusty past. A new façade is rising in steel and zeal. New buildings loom high against the slate-grey winter waters of Lake Michigan. Bulldozers cut great swaths through slums; in their wake thousands of new dwellings are being planted. New classrooms keep pace with the growing school population, new expressways crosshatch the megalopolis, manufacturing and income are steadily climbing. Chicago-once described by home-grown Author Nelson Algren as a city...
...Imam and installed a "republic" that has ever since been propped up by 20,000 Egyptian troops sent in by Gamal Abdel Nasser. In two bloody days' work last month, Iraqi army officers deposed and killed psychotic Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. Last week, on a quiet, grey Friday morning, the infection reached Syria...
Rover. A stocky stranger, wearing a grey hat, a light raincoat and red gloves, opened the rear door and inquired. "Etes-vous Monsieur Lafond?" At Lafond's nod, he pumped two bullets into his victim's abdomen. then shot the chauffeur for good measure...
...years after the bloody Mau Mau war against the whites, the British finally agreed last week to let their East African colony of Kenya take its first big step toward uhuru-freedom. Ending three weeks of talks in Nairobi with Kenya's tribal-backed political leaders, among them grey-bearded ex-Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys emerged to make his announcement to the press. Elections will be held May 18-26 for the colony's first internal self-government. To be elected under a new, 300-page constitution: seven assemblies, plus...
Dressed in dark suit and grey tie, and accompanied by his wife Rada in black veil and grey suit, Adzhubei showed up with other reporters in the Vatican's gilded throne room, listened as the Pope spoke of the church's positive neutrality in the cold war, bowed his head when John gave his blessing. "A beautiful speech," said Adzhubei, who throughout his visit to Rome proudly labeled himself a "confirmed atheist...