Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bomb rested, half shrouded by its own grey parachute, on a steep 70° slope on the ocean floor. The danger was that it might slip farther down the incline into the craggy depths of a 3,000-ft. undersea valley in which the midget submarines could not maneuver. With that consideration in mind, Rear Admiral William S. Guest, 52, commander of the 15-vessel Task Force 65, put into action Plan Charlie to recover the unarmed 20-megaton weapon...
Characteristically, his office in Quincy House is spartanly furnished: there are a few modern chairs and a grey metal desk, strewn with pamphlets on archeology and a tattered copy of Webster's. A framed map of Harvard is on the wall behind...
...equipped with special underwater cameras and a mechanical "claw," brought up film of an object it had spotted at 2,500 ft. Once developed, the film set off jubilation in Madrid and Washington, for the pictures clearly showed the H-bomb, apparently completely intact, partly covered by its own grey parachute. The recovery plan called for nudging the bomb along the sea's bottom for some distance until it rested on level ground. When that was done, the Alvin would use her claw to slip a cable around the bomb, and the U.S.S. Hoist would winch it on board...
Some 500 parliamentarians of the Spanish Cortes leaned back against their blue-grey benches as Information and Tourism Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne declared that the legislation before them bridged "two ideological extremes-an absolute and unlimited freedom of the press and total state control." Then, with three dissenting votes, the long-debated, long-awaited Press Law was enacted. The occasion hardly did justice to the passions that its drafting aroused and the curiosity with which Spanish journalists anticipated its application. Five years in the making, the new law is the Franco regime's first broad approach since...
...state duly returned his sole possession: the two pennies taken from him when he entered prison. Now a grey-haired, unemployed man of 57, Dennison understandably sued New York for $500,000 in damages. Last week the Court of Claims awarded him $115,000-freely admitting, in Judge' Heller's words, that "no sum of money would be adequate to compensate the claimant for the injuries he suffered and the scars which he obviously bears...