Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sorry, lady," said the guard outside the U.S. Air Force PX in Madrid. "The rule says no slacks allowed." The rule had been imposed in deference to Spanish propriety on orders from the commander of the U.S. Military Mission, Major General Stanley Donovan. Clad in grey flannel slacks, the lady, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the U.S. ambassador, and a priestess of high fashion in Washington when her husband was the State Department's Chief of Protocol, sheepishly stepped aside and let Mrs. Donovan herself-clad in the regulation skirt-go in to buy the golf balls they...
...LOOKING GLASS WAR, by John le Carré. The author sends another ungimmicky thriller out to fight the cold war with James Bond. Grey East Germany and red-taped London are again the settings; the spy is another drab, lonely...
Last spring, when the U.S. tried one alternative-harmless tear gases-an A.P. reporter latched onto the story, and from the hue and cry that followed, one might have thought that the scene was Ypres and the weapon was that deadly grey-green fog of 1915 called chlorine. In Washington, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara rode out the storm, their protests that the gas was utterly harmless drowned in the fatuous worldwide din of indignation. While not publicly giving way, the U.S. tacitly decided that for the moment even tear gas was too hot to handle in Viet...
...taken on the Treasury secretaryship at a crucial point in U.S. economic history. The office of Treasury Secretary, obviously one of Washington's most important jobs, has been held by a distinguished line of men that began with Alexander Hamilton. In Room 3330 of the Treasury's grey granite Greek-revival building, the office of the Secretary, are made decisions that stretch across the fields of defense, foreign policy, trade and aid, and that affect the pocketbooks of all Americans...
...face that launched a thousand jokes was frozen grey and grim. The voice that frustrated generations of newsmen and an antitrust subcommittee of the U.S. Senate was curiously grammatical as Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel, 75, announced last week that he was retiring as manager of the New York Mets. "At the present time," explained Casey, leaning heavily on a cane, "I am not capable of walking out on the ballfield. If I can't run out there and take a pitcher out, I don't want to complete my service...