Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...101st Airborne Division* at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Taylor earned the sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire from committee members, Taylor, crisply handsome in dark grey suit and TV-blue shirt, held his ground with the grace and sang-froid of a man whose intellect and experience were more than a match for his august adversaries...
...Elbow Room. The U.S. unit that found the going toughest was the 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, newly arrived from Hawaii. Assigned to the Cu Chi plain 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the brigade found itself encamped atop a veritable anthill of Viet Cong tunnels, in choking grey dust sometimes two feet deep. Enemy snipers and 60-and 81-mm. mortar crews penned the 4,000 men of the 2nd inside a perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Espionage made grim, grey and as engrossing as it was in John le Carré's novel, with Richard Burton perfectly cast as the worn-out British Intelligence hack on a fateful mission behind the Berlin Wall...
...Team. This arsenal of technical prowess is commanded by a slender wisp of a man (5 ft. 7 in., 148 Ibs.) with thinning grey hair, twinkling blue eyes, a Boston accent, and an almost embarrassing diffidence. Among strangers, Lockheed Chairman Gross will go far out of his way to avoid admitting that he heads one of the nation's largest industrial corporations. To occupational questions from fellow airline travelers, he usually responds: "I'm in manufacturing." Recently a famous European actress seated beside him at a Hollywood dinner party asked the inevitable "What do you do?" Replied Gross...
...Ogilvy & Mather). In the process, General Foods showered $17.5 million in new accounts on two of the hottest agencies in the business: 13th-ranking Doyle Dane Bernbach, whose sophisticated soft sell for Volkswagen and inverted hard sell for Avis has spawned a school of imitators, and 18th-place Grey, whose strong suit is marketing. Since last September Doyle Dane has received new billings worth $35 million from U.S. Rubber, Mobil Oil, Gillette, Ocean Spray, Bankers Trust-and only last week another $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 from Lever Bros. For the chief casualty, Foote, Cone & Belding, the switch...