Word: greys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behind the officers--a few of the 500-plus who were bussed in for the occasion--stood the containment building which will enclose the nuclear core, that energy-and-radiation-producing network of fuel rods, uranium pellets and cooling pipes. The containment, looking out over Long Island Sound, its grey exterior matching the thick cloud covering above, was the symbol of the nuclear power plant; to those who had come to protest it, it represented all that was evil about nukes. Though no protesters would actually reach the reactor building that Sunday afternoon (and only one tried), it was visible...
...German fad for the Old West dates back to the 1890s, when Buffalo Bill toured Germany with enormous success. His visit coincided with the popularity of potboilers by Karl May, who wrote Zane Grey-style novels about an Old West he had never seen. Since then, with May's books selling in the millions, Germany has never forgotten its home on the range...
...front nine, which rolls majestically from the plateau on which the clapboard clubhouse rests down towards the lead grey waters of Casco Bay. Dales played gorgeous golf from tee to green. Dales, however, simply could not hole any putts on the slow bent grass greens...
...many Third World students. William Corson, the intelligence historian, cites one former CIA official as saying in 1976. "By 1985 we'll own 80 per cent of the Iranian government's second and third-level officials." One can almost see Ayatollah Khomeini's beard turn a whiter shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student in four remains loyal to his intelligence master and even he is apt to produce worthless...
...they get acquainted, their chatter is national TV talk-show modern ("With those freeways in L.A., man, nobody says how far anything is in miles, it's just hours, you know"). The sophistication of kids from towns as small as Grey bull, Wyo., is passing wondrous, but it is disconcerting too; one wants something more than Johnny Carson from the leaders of tomorrow...