Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the red and green conference room of Greater Miami Beach's Americana Hotel stepped pink and grey President George Meany for the annual midwinter huddle of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council last week-and he forthwith boomed out a judgment that may haunt him for months...
With his beet-red face and grey hair plastered to his head, Boland resembles a jovial Irish publican, but the scholarly, Dublin-born diplomat finds as much relaxation in reading Latin and Greek classics as in Irish gin and whisky. A colleague at the U.N. considers Boland "far and away the finest chairman the Trusteeship Committee ever had." This delicate post was excellent preparation for the kind of diplomacy required of an Assembly president-knowing how to preserve decorum, when to persuade someone quietly to call for an adjournment, and when to press for a night session. The Assembly...
Hollywood's opulent desert rats in the nearby oasis of Palm Springs paid tribute to "The King," grey-templed Cinemactor...
...cult of hardy sailors in the New York City area, the winter weekend is counted a happy one when the thermometer crouches in the low 20s and a breath-catching wind sweeps snow across the grey waters of Long Island Sound. This is prime sailing weather, and down to the Sound they go, heavily bundled and goggled against the cold, to race one another in frisky, flippy, 11½-foot frostbite dinghies...
Walter E. (for nothing) Heller _ is a grey-thatched, cigar-puffing financier whose business is taking risks that no prudent banker would consider. As head of Chicago's Walter E. Heller & Co., the largest independent U.S. commercial finance firm, he has helped finance the birth and growth of more than 13,000 small and medium-sized businesses-about one in 23 of all U.S. manufacturing corporations. Heller not only pumps in vital funds where banks shun the risk, but freely dispenses the advice and guidance that many struggling firms need as badly as money. His aim is to make...