Word: greyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...midweek, a grey stubble was visible on the presidential chin. Encountering Truman at the officers' pool, a newsman remarked: "Mr. President, it looks like you're growing a Vandyke." Said Truman: "That's not a Vandyke, that's a Jeff Davis." The reporter quipped: "You must be courting the Southern rebels." Truman laughed...
...then later in September they played a full game in the Stadium. About that time, I was getting ready to kiss off the Provincetown blonde. There was no capacity crowd watching, them that particular day. Overhead, grey clouds turned black near the end of the first period. I wish I could tell you more about how they kept on playing for three more periods when electric lights were going out in Boston. But then I'd have to tell you how Bill Henry, a guy who kept statistics at last year's Yale game, showed the stuff that made...
...Never Miss." Though Tacho runs Nicaragua, he has a stooge President, 76-year-old Dr. Victor Román y Reyes, who happens to be his uncle. Tacho does not live in the presidential palace, but in a grey fortresslike place known as La Curva on the volcanic rim above Managua...
...execution took place in the furnace room of a hat factory. Wearing a grey business suit and black bowler hat, Rouault stood by the open furnace door, tossed each painting singly into the flames. Now and then he would pause to pronounce one of them "not so bad," but in an hour and a half every picture (some worth up to $2,000) was reduced to ashes. Driving back to Paris in his lawyer's black limousine, Rouault looked overcome with gloom. "Bad or not," he said, "they were my children...
...evening of July 27, 1941, a skinny, sickly civilian clambered aboard a PBY Catalina at Invergordon, Scotland. His correct, grey Homburg hat bore the initials of Britain's wartime Prime Minister. The pasty-faced passenger had no official title: he was going to Moscow to see Marshal Joseph Stalin as the personal emissary of the President of the U.S. In fact, the trip was the thin man's own idea. But President Roosevelt had given Harry Hopkins his blessing, and Winston Churchill had given him his hat, when Hopkins lost...