Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cares & Comforts. In the great cream-&-fawn meeting hall, there was a bustle of photographers around the Big Three delegations. Senator Vandenberg grandly promised a Saudi Arabian delegate: "We'll take care...
Drafty Central Hall, Westminster, was all spruced up for the meeting. Its walls had been painted a chaste cream; new fawn carpets had been laid. In approved conference formation, 40-foot-long refectory tables, each of which would seat three delegations, were ready for the delegates of the 51 convening nations...
...supercilious boredom during the reading of the indictment. Hermann Göring, whom most of them tacitly accepted as their "Führer," had also managed to salvage his vastly deceptive joviality (he graciously gave his autograph to a U.S. Navy technician) and one of his fancy uniforms, a fawn-colored, brass-buttoned affair, stripped of medals and cut down to fit his slenderized body. The uniform was obviously good for his morale. He wore it proudly, shunning the civvies G.I.s had presented to him with the note: "Dear Hermann, if you lose, please return the suit...
...Volga! Volga!" Joseph Stalin turned up at Truman's dinner in a fawn-colored uniform with scarlet epaulets and the big Gold Star of a Hero of the Soviet Union...
...Marx would have grumbled in his beard at the sight; but Engels, a bit of a fop himself, would have loved it.) Churchill, who had seen and envied Stalin's fawn outfit at Yalta, remembered that as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports he also was entitled to wear a fawn-colored uniform...