These days, when I look in the mirror, I count more and more gray hairs.

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Up close, I could see that he had freckles and a few gray hairs.

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She quit just a year later, blaming stress and the arrival of unwanted gray hairs.

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He says laughingly that he's sprouted "quite a few gray hairs" since, leading the upscale equivalent of a military operation.

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Little Mama is petite, weighing about 100 pounds, and the only physical indication of her age are the gray hairs on her chin.

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My guess is that gray hairs dominate this group and harken back to a more distant past for a less-than-objective way of deciding who plays this year.

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"Black hairs have already turned to gray, " he said last month, expressing his frustration at the slow pace of negotiations with the U.S. for China's entry into the World Trade Organization.

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