Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only wavering shadows marked the ships of Task Force 58, flung wide over the Philippine Sea. From the bridge of the flagship, a small, wiry man strained his eyes into the grey darkness. It was June 19, 1944, the second day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the planes were still out. This small, wiry man calculated the risks: Jap snoopers were probably near by, there were always submarines...
From a flying trip to Paris, Kootz had brought back nine oils. Priced at $3,500 to $20,000, seven were sold in the show's first week. The New York Times's good, grey art critic, Edward Alden Jewell, dazedly noted the waving checkbooks and concluded that Picasso was "the supreme hero of the hour. I don't know about the bobby-soxers, but were Picasso suddenly, himself, to appear in New York, he would be pursued with all the ardor to which Frank Sinatra has long been accustomed...
...Kobak is an unpressed little man with a face that might have been clipped from any old banquet photograph -shy, inexact grin, blurred eyes, tired grey hair. Actually, he is a sensationally successful huckster, known far & wide among radiomen as The Great Salesman. He loves Donald Duck, practical jokes and the Notre Dame team. He signs his letters with a great big friendly "Ed." In his office is an eight-foot bull whip; Ed likes to snap it around and make like a slave-driver. But all his employees know that Ed is just kidding; he's really...
...Macloud was impatient, but at 80, having bossed the Macloud household for 50-odd years, she knew a trick or two. That evening in St. Louis, while waiting for her eldest, son to call, she wore her grey silk dress and looked as calm as Whistler's mother. The lamp over her chair was lit, but her eyes were closed and her head was tilted back, "as if some beneficent rays were reaching her from the 60-watt bulb...
...Robert E. Lee, the "most magnificent man I ever saw," stands on the steps of a house, faultlessly uniformed in grey, with sword, sash, boots and "beautiful" spurs...