Word: greys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Foster Dulles was a missionary for peace in the cause of freedom, in the deepest meaning of the American experiment. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1888 and grew up beside the bluffs of grey Lake Ontario at the family home in Watertown, N.Y. There his father, the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles, pastor of the Watertown Presbyterian Church, brought him up to learn long passages from the Bible by heart, to revel in family choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Work, for the Night Is Coming. His boyhood heroes were Paul Revere and John Paul Jones...
...kind of glory, as a sort of woodsman cosmopolite, expert cook and reluctant pan washer, heating hors d'oeuvres over a Japanese habachi, basting squab chicken on a spit before the open fire, sitting outside on the rocks sipping cognac, watching and identifying birds, staring out across the grey waters he had known...
...grey-veined marble flanks as bleached as a great prehistoric bone, its entrance guarded by pretentious bronze doors, the new 500-room, $25 million Senate Office Building sprawled resplendently last week on Capitol Hill-dubbed "The Great White Goof...
...audience, and unleashed a torrent of colorful abuse against all the labor-reform bills now before Congress. The years had left their mark on the old ham: the massive shoulders were stooped, the magnificent mop of hair had turned white, and the hedgerow eyebrows were frosted with grey. But John L. Lewis, now in his 80th year, was the same ferocious old firebreather...
...father of the nuclear submarine was reacting again. Standing before Washington's National Press Club in a light grey business suit last week, the Navy's Vice Admiral Hyman George Rickover broke precedent by refusing to make a speech, instead fielded questions to get a few rancors away...