Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ministers took the oath of office last week beneath the Bundestag's plump, lead-grey German eagle, Adenauer lolled in a black leather chair, looking more than ever like a wily Sioux chieftain clad in a cutaway. Dapper, handsome Dr. Erich Mende, leader of the Free Democrats, sat perkily in a front-row seat. Pink-cheeked Dr. Erhard barely said good morning to Adenauer, and glanced casually through a newspaper during the Chancellor's brief speech...
Barreling down U.S. 17 toward Florida in a snappy grey Lincoln convertible Private Lucky Earl Beckwith, U.S.M.C. zoomed into the hamlet of Woodbine, Ga., was forthwith halted by the cops. A check revealed the real owner to be not so Lucky; he was New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
Coach Cooney Welland's skaters faced the tireless Grey on their larger-than-usual rink. The rink confused and tired the shoddy Crimson team, and glaring mistakes, rather than well-executed plays, highlighted the Harvard game...
Opening the scoring two minutes after the first period began, Army center Mike Thompson slammed a 25-foot slapper past Harvard goalie Godfrey Wood. The rest of the first period saw only further examples of Grey superiority on their home ground...
...England has sent us Mr. R.A. Skelton to set things aright. He has grey hair and smiling eyes, of course, but what is more important, he is curator of maps for the British Museum and a visiting consultant charged by Paul Buck with the task of drawing up proposals for the classification, cataloguing and housing of Harvard's maps and for the procurement of new maps on a more extended scale. Since the last (and the first) Harvard map catalogue was issued in 1831 the work involved is considerable...