Word: blue-grey
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...some of the pits the bodies had been neatly stacked like cordwood; in others the stiff, twisted remains had been heaped together as they fell. Some had been officers, some privates; all wore faded blue-grey uniforms and tarnished brass buttons with the Polish eagle still recognizable. Dr. Prozorovsky wore a white smock, an orange apron and red rubber gloves. Kathy had on a plaid skirt, an orange pullover sweater and garnet nail polish...
Formal entertaining ranged from small teas to elaborate dinners; President Roosevelt gave a Thanksgiving Day feast, with turkey and cranberries. The President and Churchill found time near the end of the Conference to visit the Sphinx. President Roosevelt wore a blue-grey suit most of the time; Churchill varied between a set of his zippered coveralls and a dazzling white sharkskin number, with a five-gallon cowboy...
...crowd, Mr. Smith is the fellow in the brown suit. Middle-sized and homely, he has pale blue-grey eyes behind rimless glasses, and a mustache which (though he boasts "I haven't had a clean-shaven upper lip in 15 years") is invisible in a poor light. He is cautious with his talk, and likes to take several puffs at his straight-stemmed briar pipe before answering a question. His friends joke that "Harold has only one speed: low gear." He works hard at his job, including most evenings, and has very little time for fun. When...
Eighty-odd men shucked the blue-grey uniforms of Britain's R.A.F. last week and put on khaki. The Eagle Squadrons had ended their history with the R.A.F. They would fly henceforth wearing the wings of the U.S. Army Air Forces...
...Duke's idea. The 67,000 citizens of his island kingdom were getting along O.K. until the war knocked the spots out of the lush tourist business (main support of the population), marine parasites crippled the sponge trade, blue-grey flies ruined the citrus trees. One by one the islanders lost their jobs. There was depression. So the Duke set up the Economic Investigation Committee, set out after bigger & better industry for his Bahamas...