Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Cabinet seems to be constructed more of grey fieldstone than glinting steel and glass, so does its architect. If it is short on commitments on specific issues, so is Nixon. If seven of the twelve live west of the Alleghenies, that was the source of the votes. Though a son of the Pacific Coast and a man of the Atlantic, Nixon has always had his political heart in the Midwest...
Outside the high, grim wall that surrounds the house, hawkers shout, traffic rumbles and pedestrians chatter. Inside the wall, no one speaks to Anthony Grey, Reuters' man in Peking. Grey is confined to a 12-ft.-square whitewashed room, whose window is partially boarded up. Through the window, he can see the wall, and he can catch only a glimpse of a tiny courtyard and-again-the wall. The door of his room stands open, so. that the ever-present guard at the gate can see him at all times. For five months of the year, the room...
British-born, Grey, 30, has been living in a void for 17 months, though he has been charged with no crime. He was confined to his Peking quarters in July 1967, in retaliation for the jailing of eight left-wing journalists for violating emergency regulations during last year's riots in Hong Kong. The Chinese, who once hinted that Grey would be released when the eight journalists were freed (they have been), now insist that 13 others seized since Grey's confinement must also be turned loose. Hong Kong authorities refuse to play the blackmail game...
Chinese Torture. Grey, a rugged but wiry six-footer, has become tense and pale under this peculiar form of Chinese torture. At the second of two 20 minute visits that British diplomats have been allowed to pay him in 17 months, he complained of chest pains, reported that a Communist doctor conceded that he may have bronchitis-but would not do much about it. Guards deliver the People's Daily even though Grey cannot read Chinese. He grows weary of the Peking Review, an English-language Maoist propaganda magazine. He has a library in his upstairs quarters...
...cats, bells, belling nor, on the evidence, any other form of mouse defense Far from being "assembled experts," the young mice are obviously ill-informed brainstorm-ers-generalists of the most shallow kind-glibly tossing out solutions to a problem they don't begin to understand. The old grey mouse-a specialist, no doubt-saves them from folly by pointing out the enormous technical difficulties in their plan. As a matter of fact, the addition of one further specialist-a professional cat beller-would have made the youthful spitballers look pretty good after all. That's generally...