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Word: greyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Dwight Eisenhower finally climbed into civvies, in plenty of time for the Easter parade. For the press, he sat still in a neat-but-not-gaudy, double-breasted grey worsted (see tut), while Mrs. Eisenhower fussed happily with a less conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Jazz Festival. Jazz fans from all over Western Europe (including G.I.s given special leave from Germany) flocked to it. In Nice's plum-plush opera house, they heard jazz from seven nations, including three brands of U.S. stuff. Ex-Ellington Trumpeter Rex Stewart and his sextet, garish in grey-green homespun and corn-yellow ties, set the joint jumping. But when Louis & his boys† burned a way through Rockin' Chair, St. Louis Blues and That's My Desire (with 200-lb. Velma Middleton rocking the lyrics), the fans really got what they came for. A forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nice Jumps | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...alive." Last week, he was wheeled into a pagoda-shaped, whitewashed building outside Orlando, Fla. and sat, grim and lordly (in a pit-side box built specially for him and his wheel chair). John Kehoe's hand trembled as one of his game cocks, a fierce looking grey muff, was brought into the pit, weighed and made ready for battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting the Cocks | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Staccato Flaps. When his handler released him, John Kehoe's grey tore across the pit, neck-feathers up. His onrushing enemy was a powerful red rooster equipped, like the grey, with needle-sharp, steel gaffs that man had added to his natural weapons. (U.S. cockfighters consider themselves more humane than Latin Americans, who use razor-edge "slashers.") The cocks hit each other almost two feet off the ground, in a staccato flap of wings. Every few minutes, handlers separated the cocks, sponged blood from their heads. Above the excited hubbub rose a woman's flat drawl: "Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting the Cocks | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Kehoe feeds his cocks such highfalutin food as cakes with French brandy, oysters, apples, sprouted oats, plain oats, eggs and flint corn. On the third day of the Orlando tournament last week (the fights go on for six hours a day and cost $7 to see), Kehoe's grey muffs lost their first two fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting the Cocks | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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