Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South of the Rat Islands, beneath the grey-green greasy Pacific swells off Alaska and close to the international date line that keeps Thursday from being Friday, an American submersible is missing. Shrouded in a fog bank, the S.S. Robert Louis Stevenson started on her first-and presumably last-underwater cruise on Aug. 10. Ever since, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard have kept five search vessels and a gaggle of aircraft looking for the R.L.S. - to the intense interest of Russian trawlers in the area...
...begun in February. Among the archaeologists on hand were Professors Maurice Euzennat, 40, who also serves as director of antiquities of Provence and Corsica for French Minister of Culture André Malraux, and 30-year-old François Salviat. As the power shovels bit into the rocky grey soil, more and more of Massilia's fortifications began to appear. To Euzennat, it soon became apparent that a greater expanse of ramparts remained intact than anyone had estimated when fragments were unearthed earlier in the century. Moreover, the walls were definitely Greek rather than Roman, and far more important...
...drugs and alcohol. But Emily and Anne were busily writing poems and novels. Charlotte not only joined them but also took over as their agent; within two years, she had engineered the publication of a joint collection of poems and three novels: Wuthering Heights, by Ellis Bell (Emily), Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell (Anne) and Jane Eyre, by Currer Bell (Charlotte). The poems and the first two novels flopped; Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller...
...that anyone would dare commit lese majeste. Commercial "stick" boats run right up to the basking fish and let fly with harpoons. But, ah, for the sport fisherman, armed only with rod, reel, and a passion for punishment, it is an altogether different kettle of fish. Swordfishing, wrote Zane Grey, "takes more time, patience, endurance, study, skill, nerve and strength, not to mention money, of any game known to me." And Kip Farrington. who has probably landed more big fish than any man alive, says: "I would rather take one swordfish than five black marlin, ten blue marlin...
...Apple juice is good for you," proclaims a billboard in Budapest. "Capture time, take photographs," urges a TV commercial in Prague. "Fly by airplane," reads a Soviet poster. Rudimentary as they are by Western standards, such ads are sign and symbol that the men in the grey flannel öltöny have found a place in increasingly consumer-minded Eastern Europe...