Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoulders of his grandnieces Ava and Manu, the knobby brown man shuffled weakly down the red sandstone pathway leading from Birla House to the vine-covered pergola which served as his prayer-meeting place. Slowly he climbed the three steps leading to the pavilion. A stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today for the prayer," said the murderer...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week laid his mellowed memoirs on the tomb of the New Deal. Although the wreath was appropriately floral, there were (also appropriately) some thorns among the roses. Excerpts from his good, grey story, written* at Bethesda Naval Hospital and soon to be published in two volumes by Macmillan, began appearing last week in the good, grey New York Times...
...fortnight ago, a monkish, grey-bearded 64 but still hungry for new music, Ernest Ansermet was back in the U.S. He had come at the invitation of his friend Arturo Toscanini to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra in four concerts, and he had brought along a briefcase full of surprises. For his first concert, he wrenched the orchestra and three soloists through a jangling, abrasive concerto for harp, harpsichord, piano and strings by Swiss Composer Frank Martin. Last week, he pulled out another new work: the Symphony No. 5 of Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu. Another surprise: a seldom-heard work...
When the big Grey of Army plays host to the varsity wrestling team this Saturday, it will be matching tangling techniques with an initially mediocre Crimson octet, which has muscled its way into an unbeaten record and a fair chance of pinning down the eastern championships...
...minutes later Shipbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins, who has as hard a time getting steel as the next manufacturer, was in the witness chair. Why, he asked with elaborate irony, didn't Ginsberg go into the steel grey market and "make the same small margin of profit that he makes in building materials?" Chirped unabashed Mr. Ginsberg, who was once New York State's champion lightning calculator: "How much do you need...