Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaimed "Police Day" in Prague, to honor the men who had made the victory possible. Spread in massive ranks across the old town square stood thousands of policemen and militiamen, agents of the force which hoped to celebrate Police Day the world over. Before them, amid Prague's grey and ancient statuary, sat Communist Premier Klement Gottwald, surrounded by his new cabinet, a smug, squat figure of triumph...
...Friends." In the grey stone embassy, light from the blazing chandeliers gleamed on serried ranks of vodka bottles. There were endless toasts -for the glorious Red Army and its beloved leader, Comrade Stalin; for generals, colonels, majors, captains and so on. One guest reported later: "After the toast for the captains the party lost dignity." Thorez chummily first-named the ambassador: "We are all friends, aren't we, Alex, and brothers...
...imperious nose resembling a mountain bird's beak, Don Francesco majestically strides along under an immense faded green umbrella; its edges are much frayed by rubbing against the grey stone walls that lean over the narrow, cobbled streets. Shepherds, wrapped in lambskins, and black-shawled women bow low to let the priest's umbrella sweep over them as he sails by. "God be with you, Don Francesco," say the men. "God preserve you and us," say the women...
...faulty premise that it was the duller and more backward students who needed help. For that purpose it set up the Bureau of Study Counsel, while in fact the students who went to tutors, and all others who cram both then and now, are perfectly well supplied with grey matter. The trouble lies in the fact that they have in no way been intellectually stimulated by what Harvard has to offer in the classroom, and, since most of them do not intend to go into scholarly careers, they were and are quite content to get passing grades by cramming with...
...State George Marshall got two plans for European recovery last week. The first came from a group of Maryland cub scouts, who called to tell him about their own "Junior Marshall Plan" for raising funds to help Europe's children. The other came from Michigan's big, grey Senator Arthur Vandenberg...