Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stevensonians were furious, accused him of being a "turncoat opportunist" who had made "peace with the enemy." His wife announced that she was still for Adlai ("Can't you control your own wife," wrote Bobby Kennedy, "or are you like me?"). His mother was too, but the stately, grey-haired lady shrugged: "In a way I suppose it is good that Arthur is working for Senator Kennedy. If Kennedy is nominated and elected, he'll certainly need Arthur's brilliance in the White House...
Though the technicians reduced history's kaleidoscope to a uniform grey, they did deepen the shafts of research, put new emphasis on the importance of thorough documentation, pave the way for the current use of computers to analyze voting patterns and population shifts. But electronic aids can carry a historian only so far. "Some of the profoundest problems of history are not amenable to statistical analysis," says Yale's C. Vann Woodward, historian of the American South. "Everything still must be digested by one man sitting at his desk." And that man, argues Schlesinger, is the better historian...
...soft, dark grey substance that geologists call "quick clay" is composed primarily of small flaky particles and a great deal of water. It contains very little of the electrolytic salts that tend to bind normal soil particles together...
...Grey, Then Blue. Nor did Dr. Trimmer mention ether the next morning, when he and Anesthesiologist Lloyd Goodwin were preparing Michael Ketchum, 12, for a hernia operation. Dr. Goodwin injected fluid from the same Surital bottle/and there was the same instant reaction of spasms and coughing. The boy complained that the injection burned, but Dr. Goodwin gave more of the same fluid, and the coughing ceased. The operation went smoothly, and the boy seemed to be doing well...
...suspect that there might be something wrong with the analgesic mixture. He mixed a fresh batch, gave some to Mrs. Covington, and her' operation continued with no other anesthetic. She went to the recovery room alongside Michael Ketchum. It was not long before the boy turned ashen grey, then blue, from insufficient oxygen in his blood. So did Mrs. Covington. Despite frantic attempts at resuscitation by a belatedly alerted hospital staff, both patients died...