Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automatic sprinkler system opened up, spraying curtains of water into the lower-deck compartments. But the magnesium-fed fire continued to burn, turning sections of the flight deck above into a sizzling skillet. Choking clouds of dense, dirty-grey smoke poured through seven decks of the Oriskany's forward sections. Two more blasts sent flames belching along the flight deck, where red-shirted ordnance experts worked feverishly to jettison 500-lb., 1,000-lb.and 2,000-lb. bombs they dumped dozens overboard into...
...cold, grey rain pelted the turrets of Wormwood Scrubs as the 320 prisoners of D block began their nightly "free-association period." Inmates gathered in the block's communal hall to watch the telly or drifted into one another's open cells for an hour and a half of convivial chatter before lights-out. Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul. There, over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soir...
Sightseeing Mistake. Not only was he 3 in. shorter and more than 35 lbs. lighter than the fugitive Hilda had described, but he had dark hair (now grey) and no gold teeth; he wore different clothes and drove a two-toned 1954 Oldsmobile. Told that it was all a mistake, Simmons spent the next day sightseeing and swimming only 50 miles from the border. He might better have headed for home. While he relaxed, the police learned that he had been convicted of burglary and auto theft in the U.S. Besides, he was technically a fugitive from a Texas mental...
...clipped while covering a Cleveland Browns football game, he wakes up in the hospital confronting the saurian sneer of "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich (Matthau), an ambulance chaser who, by the look of his crummy clothes, has been chasing them on his hands and knees. Willie's skin is as grey as the towel in a night-court lavatory, but his ideas are crisp and green. As the cameraman's brother-in-law, he loyally announces: "We're going for all the marbles, kid! You got a ringing in your ears and double vision...
...took to wearing unpressed suits and a soft grey shirt and, writes Thompson, "brought his arrogance and grouchiness under at least temporary control. His remarks were usually cheerful, witty, mischievously playful." Thompson concludes this phase of Frost's life with the newly successful poet preparing at 40 to return to America. Frost's ambition now was to find a farm in New England where he could "live cheap and get Yankier and Yankier." He did, and so did his work...