Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wiry, tight-lipped overseer with sparse grey hair and rimless trifocals, McDonnell scoffs at the "one-man myth" about his company. But if his employees are "teammates," he is the coach, and he calls every important play. He is in the middle of every scrimmage. McDonnell refers to himself as "a practicing Scotsman," and in small ways he certainly is. He has been known to spend five hours going over the cost of Xerox copies of company documents. To inhibit gabby long-distance telephone calls, he gave his aides three-minute egg timers. Yet Missouri's largest employer spends lavishly...
...face of such Burroughsian challenges the other side typically seeks refuge behind the grey, authoritarian prose of the law. In Massachusetts, whoever sells to a person under 18 anything which is "obscene, indecent or impure, harmful to minors, or manifestly tends to corrupt the morals of youth" faces imprisonment for five years and a $5000 fine, Chapter 272, Section 28, of the Massachusetts General Laws Annotated proclaims...
Even those who do end up in prison should get far different treatment from that handed out to most of the 426,000 who are now serving time. Too many prisons are grey, forbidding fortresses; some are 100 years old or more. And too many emphasize punishment, to the detriment of rehabilitation. The commission suggests that new prisons should be kept as small as possible. They should have a residential air, and be located near cities and universities, where cooperation with industry and academicians could be easily arranged. At the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn., the Dictograph Corp. sponsors...
Almost any career would do. He tried law, but it bored him. He tried speculation (South American mining shares), and was soon saddled with a load of debts that plagued him nearly all his life. He took to writing, but his first novel, Vivian Grey, scandalized the haul monde, without winning a large public or making much money. Politics became his ladder of last resort. Even then he slipped four times on the first rung before finally winning a seat in Parliament on his fifth...
...degeneracy and corruption. The bush, the prickly pear and the thorn trees are creeping back over the paddocks of Sherwood Ranch, a once-prosperous farm in African "territory" on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. It is presumably in Bechuanaland, being also north of Kipling's "great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," and whatever its political future, a colonist would probably do better on the moon...