Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musicals composed by undergraduates but possessing few other virtues once nearly drove Grant-in-Aid out of business. Now they have settled for the solider stuff of Broadway musicals; they sponsor an auction of things forgotten and unclaimed; they even (alas) run the freshman mixer. Held against the grey formality of the Financial Aids Office, their fund looks filled with life and color; it is eminently worth preserving...
...military men worked day and night to get ready for the U.S. series of shots. In the Government's nuclear laboratories at Los Alamos, N. Mex., and Livermore, Calif., scientists were turning mock-up models of weapons into hardware that could be exploded. In Washington, a shabby grey building named Barton Hall, tucked away near the Lincoln Memorial, suddenly became one of the most important structures in town. There Joint Task Force 8-the nucleus of the U.S. testing effort-was preparing for the huge job of transporting the scientists' devices to the far islands of the Pacific...
...saves part of every afternoon for his only hobby, swimming. In New York, he may go to the theater or a movie in the evenings. In Key West, he barhops or sits home listening to records with his long time secretary, Frank Merlo, a slight man with steel-grey hair. The rest of the house hold consists of two playful bulldogs, Mr. Moon and Baby Doll, and a parrot...
Shoemaker quickly found that practice was as important as poundage. He spent three years learning fundamentals: breaking yearlings, mucking out stalls, exercising colts in the chill grey dawn. When he finally earned his spurs in 1949, Shoemaker was an immediate success: in his first season, he rode 219 winners; the next year he tied Joe Culmone for the national title with 388. Though he had ridden many good horses, Willie never got a great one until 1954, when he won the mount on Rex Ellsworth's Swaps. This year he is contracted for two of the best: the colt...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. Part three of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime, how an upper-class way of living and dying turned grey when the Russians became Britain's allies...