Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed to add up to a diplomatic policy greatly influenced if not largely created by the War and Navy Departments, two branches of the government whose chief historic preoccupation has been with war, rather than peace. While the good grey Secretary Byrnes tirelessly performed his role at the Paris peace conference, the admirals and the generals were doing their best to originate their own type of policy, one greatly reminiscent of the sabrerattling of days long gone...
...Montreal, Alexander Navarro Fernandez (or was it Carlos Lados?) from Spain (or was it Austria?) was known as "Count Navarro." He was a dapper little man with hollow cheeks, a dab of grey mustache, and a heel-clicking ballroom manner. He lived here & there, but he liked best the expensive elegance of the Mount Royal Hotel...
...story of the 20th Century too vast and confusing for the men who were trying to report it? Earnest, grey-haired Sevellon Brown thought the answer was an emphatic Yes. Like many a publisher with a conscience, he had an uneasy feeling that the press was falling down on its job. The daily montages of headlines, in his Providence Journal and Bulletin and elsewhere, were nagging proof that the times demanded better papers, bigger and broader newsmen-on penalty of chaos...
...good, grey, elephantine New York Sunday Times celebrated a partial anniversary: the Book Review section was 50 years...
Hermann Göring was first. Slimmed down, limply clad in a grey suit that once fitted him snugly, he strode into the courtroom at Nürnberg, flanked by two white-helmeted military policemen. He stood erect under the glaring lights, fixed headphones to his ears. British Presiding Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence looked sternly down on the No. 2 Nazi and pronounced sentence: death by hanging...