Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over New Jersey, police were looking for him: Henry M. Brooks, 61, described on the teletype as "6 ft. 1, heavyset, squarejawed, with iron-grey hair and heavy mustache." For 30 years, Brooks had been a respected citizen of Greenwich, Conn, and a well-known figure in Wall Street. He was a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, a Harvard...
...word from the mountains was nike -victory. The Grammos battle was officially over. Clambering up the stark, grey slope of Grammos' highest peak, weary, tattered Greek soldiers unfurled the blue and white national flag. Some crossed themselves gratefully; others wept...
...Moon. Following army spearheads the next day, the observation group visited Markos' former capital, Aetomilitsa, a typical mountain village of about 100 grey, slate-roofed stone houses nestling against the peak of Mavri Petra (Black Stone). So hasty was Markos' retreat that he left over 2,000 pounds of bread in the village ovens. All the houses in Aetomilitsa had Communist slogans painted in red. The wall of the lecture hall in the largest building, the military academy, bore the slogans, "Men Are Judged by Their Deeds" and, just below, "Long Live Markos...
When the proclamation was being considered by the State Council, grey-bearded, scholarly Rabbi Juda L. Fishman spoke for the Mizrachi, or orthodox Jews. He asked that the word Elohenu (Our Lord) be used. Agricultural Minister Aron...
...Cali, defiant squads roamed the streets carrying thermos jugs, passing out coffee free to all. In Bogota's Cafe El Dorado, a grey-maned lawyer declaimed: "They're trying to tax a tradition-aye, exploit friendship itself!" In La Botella de Oro, a young sculptor shouted: "The birthright of all Bogotanos-a harmless vice, our oldest tradition. Double the price? No hay derecho! (They have no right...