Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale the Dunster House squash team defeated Calhoun College, 4 to 1. Winners for the Crimson were Bob Howe, Jake Slepian, Grey Jones, and Ben Dibley...
Existential Despair. The extraordinary thing about Monticello is its ordinariness. The habitual viewer knows that it has industry, because Winston Grimsley, a fuddy financier, is the grey eminence of these modest family fortunes. It has an airport -a villain once took off and fell from a plane whose flight originated in Monticello. It also has a sewer system known to those who saw two villains trapped in it for many a long mortal episode. It has a symphony orchestra-a villainess has set up an alibi at one performance. Only one human element, so essential to the life...
...lives on Lexington Avenue, not Madison, and it runs to blue serge conservatism more than grey flannel. It takes no hard-liquor accounts, turns up its nose at some top-selling products (patent medicines), refuses even to put on speculative account presentations for prospective clients...
...about the Kennedy Administration, Shannon has increasingly peppered his prose. Wrote he of Kennedy's early Cabinet choices: "It has been a pretty sad interregnum for liberal admirers of our new, young President-elect. What began as a search for new men is ending as the acceptance of grey men." After Secretary of State Dean Rusk's first press conference, Shannon commented acidly: "Answering approximately 20 questions, he explored the outer reaches of cliche and the higher peaks of platitude. One [reporter] described Rusk's performance as 'an educated man's parody of an Eisen...
...stepped out of his grey-and-gold Viscount at Washington National Airport, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker radiated anticipation and good cheer. Hustling up to the knot of waiting U.S. and Canadian officials, he grasped the arm of newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Canada Livingston Merchant and confided: "We're very glad you're coming, we couldn't be more pleased." Then, turning to face the TV cameras, the man who has taken as strong a position as anyone in his nation against excessive U.S. influence over Canada firmly declared: "When I read...