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Word: greys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grey horse reared and refused in the center ring, the crowd groaned its disappointment: again it happened, and again the accompanying condolence. The horse obviously had no intentions of cooperating, for a third display of stubborness resulted in its early elimination. Polite applause and master and mare exeunt...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Royalty Reigns At Myopia Hunt | 7/3/1975 | See Source »

...Slive becomes moody, thumbing through racks of paintings in one of the Fogg's storage depots. Over twenty gun-metal grey, ceiling-high, metal-mesh racks line this long, narrow hall on the museum's second floor. They are hung with a "big slice of the cultural history of mankind," as Rosenfield says. And though resonant with a strenuous, discordant mixture of competing styles and periods, none of them can escape a certain loneliness, a quiet desperation when shoved back into their dark recess. Pulling out one rack then another, Slive runs through the depot, lingering over one canvas then...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Emerging From The Fogg | 5/21/1975 | See Source »

...grey-working-class suburb of Milan. A Brief Vacation is the temporary escape illness provides for Clara (Florinda Balkan) from the crushing situation in which she is trapped. While her husband recovers from an industrial accident. Clara must support him, their two small children, his senile mother, and his shiftless brother. On her feet all day holding an acetylenc torch in a metals plant. Clara spends the rest of her time running the household. If she doesn't change a sick child's bandage or decide whether the dinner eggplant should be sliced or diced it doesn't get done...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: Cinderella and the Welfare State | 5/6/1975 | See Source »

Daniel Steiner '54, General Counsel to the University, said Monday that he "isn't 100 per cent sum" but thought that an interviewer "probably shouldn't" indicate an applicant's race on his report. He said that there is a "grey area" in the law on this point, but added that he thought it permissible for a student to volunteer information on his race...

Author: By Audrey H. Ingber and Mark J. Penn, S | Title: The Admissions Process: Target Figures, Profiles, Political Admits... | 4/24/1975 | See Source »

Just to dance with a foamy grey...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Searching for the Queen of Hearts | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

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