Word: graying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. In his talks with these two shrewd visitors, his new-found toughness will be put to its hardest test. If the conference is a moderate success, Carter may reverse his decline in public esteem. If not, his future may be gray indeed...
...grandfather's face is collecting wrinkles. There is more gray at his temples. He has thickened a little at the waist. But there is energy in his eyes and his movements, a mental vigor that seems untouched by the savage season of Watergate. One concludes that Nixon looks his guest in the eye more directly, more confidently and with less of the familiar lid fluttering that sometimes marred his human encounters years ago in the White House...
...Aquatic, a noisy, diesel-driven 40-ft. private sub tender chugs out of Warwick Cove into a gray Rhode Island day. Past rows of boats with names like Many-Ha-Ha's, Daddy's Girl, Lucy M and Gyp Sea. Past a dock where burlap sacks of clams are bought and sold -the seller getting 55? per lb. for littlenecks, as high as 80? for big quahogs. Past a sandbar where a tourist drowned yesterday clamming in 3 ft. of water. Past the big shingled mansions that trim the shoreline at fashionable Warwick Neck. And so into Narragansett...
...them right now, mostly prosperous Western Europeans, huddled like refugees on the packed fringes of the Mediterranean. They are taking part in a ritual, exercising a civil right, and in the process hungrily consummating a winter's yearnings. The summer vacation season is upon them, draining the gray, rainy cities of the north, flooding the beaches of Spain's Costa del Sol, France's Côte d'Azur, Italy's Capri and the Greek islands...
...public school imprint. Fighting oppressions as youths may have strengthened the graduates for the larger trials provided by life. Above all, the schools seem to have given their charges a sense of belonging together, a memory of childhood that they shared with their peers and never forgot. - Paul Gray...