Word: greyish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last the heart lay bare, red and purple with a greyish cast, glistening under the strong lights, squirming and rippling with life-a life Dr. Bailey and his team were fighting to save...
...echoes like a thunderbolt from the enveloping fog bank of his silence. Actually, Hopper fires off a fair share of personal observations, only he spaces them days and weeks apart. Examples: "American women are pretty flat-chested, on the whole.'' "The Pacific Ocean is sort of misty, greyish." "Armenians have no backs to their heads." "I don't see why people are crazy to import French paintings when there are so many French paintings being made in America." "I like Emerson to read, I guess...
Shredded bits of carpeting, an acrid smell around the wreckage -like burned-out fireworks -and a greyish residue on some of the bits of the plane all indicated high explosives. Technicians from the FBI and the Douglas Aircraft Co. were summoned, and a crew of 40 men was dispatched to pick up every fragment of the plane, and cart it all back to Denver. There, in a warehouse near the airport, the experts began the painstaking job of fitting the fragments together again...
...mixture of lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide, first made in 1824 by an English mason, Joseph Aspdin. The greyish color of the compound, cooked in a kiln, reminded him of stone quarried from the Isle of Portland off the British coast...
...from one old friend, borrowed $100 from another and bought a secondhand drilling rig. On his first try, at a depth of 73 feet, the rig broke down. Steen, who had no money to buy a Geiger counter, borrowed one from a friend to test a sample of the greyish black rock brought up by the drill. The needle nearly jumped from the dial of the instrument. "We've found it!" cried Charlie. "We've found a million dollars...