Every month he drove into the barber shop and had his gray-flecked hair buzzed.

Tears formed in Teilani's eyes, gleaming as they slowly rolled down to her gray-flecked hair.

Gregg swung to his feet and tugged his tie into place, running fingers through gray-flecked hair.

Physically, Conway was a commanding presence, a stocky, powerful man with gray-flecked hair and deep, piercing blue eyes.

Then he unbuttoned the two top buttons of his shirt and ran his hand roughly through his gray-flecked hair.

Once the Puerto Rican featherweight champion, Papa Trinidad, now 48, has gray-flecked hair but he's a slender 165 pounds.

He was broad and powerful, with gray-flecked hair and a broad belt bristling with knife and dagger hilts.

The dramatis personae: Jean B. Grillo and two California types - male, early 40's, professionally tanned, gray-flecked hair ruthlessly coiffed, well-dressed.

Mr. Duriscoe, who has a bushy mustache and curly gray-flecked hair, is an ecologist for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

Martin's gray-flecked hair often makes him appear older than his 30 years, and his smooth but unspectacular game can make him seem like a grandfather on the court, creaky and old fashioned.

"To be a grown-up and to do what you want to do is the most beautiful thing," he said, his gray-flecked hair pomaded into what looked like a tangle of swaying prairie grass.

With long, dark, gray-flecked hair, he wore jeans and green clogs and showed obvious discomfort only when the subject turned to the settling of a family dispute over the Pritzker financial empire, himself among the contentious heirs.

With the unruly mop of gray-flecked hair combed straight back from his brow, she had revealed the spare good looks and angular features of an interesting crossbreed: a mixture of Quaker and Cherokee was what she imagined.

"I want you to get excited about this race," says Gantt, sweat beading up under his gray-flecked hair and dripping down his brow, as he addresses a crowd of some 600 supporters - about half black and half white - in a dusty parking lot outside a football stadium in Winston-Salem.