After just an hour the beach was a winter beach, cold and gray and the dead kelp like the hair of the drowned, and it stayed that way despite all attempts.

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Pitchers and catchers report to spring training in a few scant days and even those of us laboring under blizzard conditions and unyielding cold gray skies that seem to stretch forever (yes, I live in New York) can glimpse the warmth of sunnier days to come.

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"I hired a well-known interior designer who made the house gray and cold, " said Mrs.

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"I like my dead people cold, stiff, gray and not breathing, " says Dr. Michael A. DeVita of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

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February housing numbers were as gray, gloomy and cold as the winter month they represented.

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It was cold and the sky was a single unchanging sheet of gray.

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They feel more like the Cold War, a place of black-and-white and not much gray.

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