Word: gray
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...head of the Stevens High School Committee for Kennedy. The last stop was Claremont Senior Congress Park, where, voice rising, face redenning and hands gripping the podium, he ticked off his record of pushing aid to the elderly, all to a crowd that featued not one natural non-gray hair. Now, he's pitching the young people in the high school auditorum...
...grindingly precise, an icy, athletic watchmaking. Only in recent weeks have Eric and Beth Heiden, the brother-and-sister speed skaters from Madison, Wis., begun to educate Americans about the beauties of their sport: the swoopingly powerful grace, the lean, economical rhythms of a skater swinging over very fast, gray-blue ice, bright, silver shavings leaping minutely in the sun with every snick of the skate blade. In Norway and The Netherlands, citadels of the sport, Eric is an athletic hero. As the Olympics approached, he acquired celebrity in his own country...
About the time that Soudan was opening his shipping firm, a man calling himself Bert Stem-fortyish, with gray hair and a vaguely Germanic accent-appeared in Piraeus, Greece, to hire a crew capable of working a supertanker. The load was to be 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil, to be delivered in Genoa to an independent Italian oil company, Pontoil. On Nov. 30, the ship-Soudan's Salem-sailed for Kuwait and picked up the crude. After four days at sea, however, the cargo was sold to Shell in a normal spot-market transaction. Shell kept Genoa...
...Paul Gray...
...first combat, Hugh is wounded; unlike them, he heals easily. Despite this tentativeness, The Beginning Place demonstrates what readers of Le Guin's highly praised science fiction have known for a long time: she is as good as any contemporary at creating worlds, imaginary or our own. -Paul Gray...