Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team of 20 physicians, nurses and technicians. On the table, his breathing regular as he fell into a deep sleep, lay Dwight David Eisenhower, 65, 34th President of the U.S., undergoing major surgery to relieve an obstruction of the small intestine. Nearly two hours later, with a steel-grey dawn just breaking over Washington, came the announcement that the operation had been a success...
Next morning, spruce in a grey summer suit, Ike held his weekly press conference. Toward the end of his opening seven-minute talk on the need for foreign aid, he got in over his head in trying to phrase the Administration's new warmth toward neutrals. Some nations that "are using the term 'neutral' with respect to attachment to military alliances," do not mean to claim neutrality between right and wrong. After all, he said, the U.S. constantly asserted its neutrality in the first 150 years of its history. If a neutral nation is attacked, he went...
Last week, before the convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Hat Workers Union in Manhattan, Harriman (who had been calling himself a not-active candidate) threw an old grey fedora into news cameras and cried: "I want to say to you that this hat is in the ring - this is a hat you gave me, and no one is going to take it away from me." He made his announcement less than 24 hours after David Dubinsky, boss of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and a vice chairman of New York State's Liberal Party, had told the hatters...
...familiar line of cold, grey faces atop Lenin's cold, red tomb, watching the Red Square parades pass by, one mustachioed figure was always seen quite close to Stalin. He was First Deputy Premier Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, onetime tanner's apprentice who became an able and ruthless administrator. Stalin was rumored to have married Kaganovich's sister Roza, though this has never been established as fact...
...Albers sets himself to visualizing for the purpose of making pictures was made plain last week in a retrospective show of his art at the Yale University Art Gallery. There were squares within squares done in colors straight from the tube, and more complicated geometrical arrangements done in black, grey and white. At first view the show was simply forbidding; in time it became a puzzle, and finally a demonstration...