Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chill, gilded chamber of the House of Commons was hushed as the neat grey man in the neat grey business suit reached the climax of his speech. In the packed galleries tense, brown-skinned men leaned forward to catch every word. Prime Minister Clement Attlee's thin voice carried a statement fat with destiny. He read...
...Would you buy a 1947 automobile and leave it in your garage for 20 years before you use it? Well then-why buy the executive abilities of a university graduate and leave them unused for 20 years? The widely held concept that you must have grey hair and considerable rotundity before accepting major responsibilities is costing Canada millions of dollars in wasted dormant assets. American business wants Canadian youth, and deliberately creates attractive openings for them. Can we not attain comparable recognition here in our own country? . . . We are prepared to start at the bottom of the ladder...
Last week Dr. Lina Stern was once again on international view. The Soviet Government handed out photographs of her to the world's press, along with a few carefully chosen words about her career. Grey now and 69, Dr. Stern is a woman of consequence in the U.S.S.R. She holds the Stalin Prize for scientific accomplishment, is director of the Moscow Institute of Physiology and half a dozen other research enterprises, has nearly 300 scientific publications to her credit. She can boast the standard trappings of a top-rank Russian scientist: a fine laboratory...
February in Paris was cold, windless and grey, and its people beset with chaotic politics, strikes and shortages (see FOREIGN NEWS). Last week many a Parisian found a refuge from these storms in the sparkling new Galerie des Carets. There hung the paintings of a man whom some conservative critics have come to prefer to Picasso. He was monkish old Georges Rouault, whose fat, smoldering judges, jeweled kings, whores, clowns and solitary Christs grow richer and stranger year by year. They looked not like paint but hot coals, caked angrily into patterns by a muscle-bound man with a trowel...
...line "between good-grey press and yellow or purple press," said Markel, divides editors who stress important news from those who stress interesting news. Once in 1922, he recalled, he had asked the late Publisher Adolph S. Ochs: "How does it happen that the Times, which publishes only the news that's fit to print, carries columns upon columns of the Hall-Mills [lovers' lane murder] story...