Word: grey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the arc-lighted ballroom of London's Claridge's Hotel, before a tough audience of some 200 newshawks and cameramen, the trim, grey-suited American told Britons some harsh truths - with a chaser of enthusiasm and hope...
...Blackfriars. He painted 36 known portraits of the king, 25 of Queen Henrietta Maria. The British nobility followed the king to Van Dyck's studio, and suiting his art to his sitters, he forsook the rich palette of his Italian period to paint them in proud, pale, silver-grey tones...
High Speed. The air was filled with an electric whine. On the white-sheeted table, the patient could hear nothing else. He could see nothing except the grey, perforated wallboard beyond his feet. But coursing through his neck, in invisible bursts 180 times a second, was a beam of X rays whipped up by the 25 million volts to a speed almost exactly equal to that of light. The beam was aimed at the center of the cancer...
...students did not seem to be having much fun. Andover's cross section was grey as the dawn, but like the dawn it might be a preview of brighter things...
...shirtsleeved owner of such prize bulls as Netherhall Swanky Dan and St. James Philosophers Barbee, Schnering is also one of the nation's top farmers. Last week, on his 7,soo-acre Illinois domain, the Candy Bar King reached for a new crown. After seven years' research, grey-haired, blue-eyed Otto Schnering was ready to launch the first big-scale nationwide system of breeding cattle by artificial insemination...