Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year later, on a cool, grey day, the 35th President of the United States sat at his desk in the oval office of the White House and discussed the same subject. "This job is interesting," he said in that combination of Irish slur and broad Bostonese that has become immediately identifiable on all the world's radios, "but the possibilities for trouble are unlimited. It represents a chance to exercise your judgment on matters of importance. It takes a lot of thought and effort. It's been a tough first year, but then they're all going...
...refused appeals by West Berlin's senate and the German Red Cross for an easing of border restrictions during the holidays. As distinct from West Berliners, West Germans can still enter East Berlin if they have sufficient stamina and persistence. Hundreds lined up as Vopos pawed over their grey identification cards. "Do you always have to wait this long?" asked a man in the queue. A woman answered: "No. They're just making it hard for us. They want us to think twice before we come here again...
...implied indictment of Castro, he put most clearly at a state dinner in Bogota. Warning against "those who tell us that the only road to economic progress is by violent Communist revolution," Kennedy pointed to Western Europe, free and prosperous, and then to the contrast of Eastern Europe, grim, grey and captive. "They promise free elections and free speech and freedom of religion. But once power is achieved, elections are eliminated, speech is stifled, and the worship of God is prohibited...
...dangling from one of Jackie Gleason's shirts. His Manhattan tailor flatteringly but fairly describes him as "the best-dressed stout man I know-above conservative, not afraid to look well-dressed." Gleason orders about a dozen suits a year, paying as little as $285 for a little grey nothing, sometimes going exotic with such items as a cashmere trench coat or pink slacks. He once gave his tailor a single $7,500 order. He is 47 in. at the bulge, but it sometimes swells to 51 in., and he has to keep a triple wardrobe. Each "medium weight...
...eighth-grade graduation play, he shouted at her from the stage: "I told you. Mom! I told you!" His formal education ceased at that level and, to his mother's dismay, he spent the next few years standing around on street corners, usually dressed in a grey suit, a pearl grey double-breasted vest, a yellow polka-dot tie, a polka-dot handkerchief, a polka-dot scarf, a chesterfield, a derby and spats-doing absolutely nothing...