Word: greyingly
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...madness became wearying soon enough for Namo and I. Skin accustomed to the grey skies of Cambridge burns easily, and after a few successive nights the flashing lights and thumping bass of a disco make the club-hopper feel more like a soldier in the trenches at Chateau-Thierry in 1917 than a happy vacationer in Florida in the spring of 1978. After a while, the beer started to lose its tang, the rebel yells started to sound strained, and the blond, tanned 30-year-olds lounging at beachside bars started to look like desperate characters. The mirage was fading...
...another lonely Saturday afternoon in November, 1974. The sky was grey, and I sat by my television lamenting the fact that the Three Stooges were not on during the weekend...
...Follin and his colleagues, Ernest Grey and Kwang Yu, explain it, cosmic rays act like cue balls in a kind of nuclear billiard game. When they strike and shatter atoms in the upper atmosphere, they produce a shower of subatomic bits of matter moving at great speed. When these so-called "secondary cosmic rays" collide with atoms in a cloud, they knock electrons from them. Accelerated in the cloud's electric field, these electrons avalanche toward the bottom of the cloud and pile up there...
Then again, it may not. The corporation may be considering candidates it already knows so well that it doesn't need to interview them, such as Acting Provost of Yale Hannah Grey...
Linda Giles, a center counselor, outlined some of the "grey areas" in Massachusetts statutes. She noted that as "lots of irrelevant garbage" still gets into the courtroom, "there is no predicting how a jury will decide on any given case...