Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stockroom clerks or statisticians or employees in the U.N. movie unit. Among the gear hastily issued them before they took off from La Guardia Field for Palestine were .35-caliber Smith & Wesson revolvers, without ammunition. If Bernadotte chose to issue them bullets, the little band in white caps and grey uniforms would become U.N.'s first armed force...
...Lita Grey, tiger-eyed second of Charlie Chaplin's four wives, was having none of this backing & filling: she decided to sue third husband Arthur Day for divorce after ten years because her new career (as a peripatetic nightclub singer) made things impractical...
...Ambition. Plainly, Jim Duff was not a man to run from a fight. At 65, he is a friendly, outspoken six-footer with a rugged frame and electric blue-grey eyes that make him look 20 years younger. Since he moved to the Executive Mansion, he has become a familiar sight on Harrisburg streets-window-shopping, chatting with the local newsstand dealer, gassing with the cop on the corner...
...winner and probable next governor was grey, husky William S. Beardsley, a veteran state representative. Before the campaign, Beardsley was little known outside his home county, where he runs a drugstore at New Virginia (pop. 450) and manages his 900-acre farm. Burly (5 ft. 10½ in., 200 Ibs.) Bill Beardsley got around to picnics and rallies all over the state, paid no attention to the professional politicos. Most Iowans liked his record in the legislature. He had fought the governor on school legislation, had opposed Blue's stringent labor laws. When the returns came in, Bill Beardsley...
...Wars ("He crucified noble, he sacrificed mean, he filled old ladies with kerosene"). But, as the Manchester Guardian straight-faced last week, "It was a time of uncertainty . . . One of these government commissions was talking of doing away with the good old scarlet uniform and replacing it with field grey or 'khokee.' Magazine rifles (far too complicated for active service) were being issued . . . Soon even the drum might be threatened. No wonder Drummer Campbell deserted...