Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the icy, grey-green waters of Scotland's Holy Loch, past the Argyll highlands and into the North Atlantic slipped the nuclear-powered SSB (N) 608-more popularly known as the U.S. submarine Ethan Allen. From the wind-whipped surface it nosed silently into the world beneath, a world where time itself hung motionless. Aboard were 16 Polaris missiles-with a total destructive power greater than all the bombs exploded in World War II. The Ethan Allen, on what its captain called "a full wartime footing," was setting out on its regular 60-day patrol...
...more radical, it will come to share the other's unpopularity, and cease being "fashionable," as at present. Weaver expressed the opinion that this radical shift has already begun, and that student activists such as he have taken the leadership of the movement away from "the Negro lawyers in grey suits...
...attic, dusty, stale, and dead. But as Friedman has decorated it, the room is almost oppressive in its humanity. At odd corners of the room are numerous animals; each comes as a surprise. Swinging from the sloppy bookshelf is a toy monkey. A pink trojan horse and grey kitten sit on the desk. Also on the desk stands a willow plant, to which is attached a single large, yellow bee. And a gaint green cotton frog is perched on the magazine table...
...first Negro Marshall scholar, will study medieval African history. To tap it, Willis has learned classical Arabic at Boston University, will aim for a Ph.D. at the University of London, which he calls "the best school in the world for African studies." Stan ford's Tom Grey might well be the prototype Marshall scholar. He went to Exeter, where he edited the Exonian, won a National Merit scholarship to Stanford. A veteran of Stanford-in-Germany, he earned a junior-year Phi Beta Kappa key, is an honors student in philosophy. No athlete, Grey is a witty, articulate student...
Towering above the quaint tile roofs of Valdagno. a village in Northern Italy, are two imposing structures-a huge textile mill, now being enlarged into Europe's biggest spinning and weaving plant, and an eight-story grey marble mansion. Both belong to the Marzotto family. So do the village's hospitals, orphanages, parks, cafes, hotels, shops and just about everything else, including the railroad station and the 20-mile electric railway that links Valdagno with the outside world...