Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bringing a gold rosary sent by Mount St. Mary's, as well as vitamins, candy bars, clothes, and a box of cigars, Judge Walsh was shown into his brother's prison, where a grey-clad official lectured him on what was permitted-no mention of the trial, no notes, discussion limited to family matters. The rosary was forbidden; only "necessities" might be given to prisoners...
...surpasses him in the jumping events. The two are a taciturn pair; the only sounds of their pre-Rome workouts were the explosive "poofs" as they exhaled at the start of a sprint, or anguished grunts from the weight rings. Each day they methodically pushed themselves to the grey edge of exhaustion. Says Coach Drake: "When an athlete goes in for the decathlon seriously, it's not just a matter of physical conditioning and training-it's a whole way of life...
Patternmaker. For lesser men, the hectic pace of Albert Lasker's life would have led to worse things than an interruptible nervous breakdown. In his 44 years with Lord & Thomas (most of them as sole owner), Lasker dominated U.S. advertising and cut the pattern for its grey flannel suit. Under his influence the public was introduced to irium and Amos 'n' Andy, to Kleenex, four-door sedans and soap operas. Yet Lasker was all but invisible: almost nothing was written about him, and two blocks off Madison Avenue his name is still virtually unknown. In this fine...
When plans were first drawn for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912, the architect envisioned a grey, classic complex along the Charles River, with no building higher than five stories and a softly rounded dome providing the grace note. But in recent years, expanding M.I.T. has felt cramped on its 115-acre Cambridge campus. Something had to give, and what gave was M.I.T.'s low-lying skyline. The next addition to the campus, to be ready by 1962, will be the 20-story, $5,000,000 Earth Sciences* Center, designed by Alumnus Ieoh Ming...
...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder happily combines a cynical commentary on grey-flannel suitors with a superb comedy of men's-room humors and watercooler politics...