Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high wire fences of Camp Elliott, Calif, take in 40 square miles of desert scrublands northeast of San Diego, and keep in 885 grey-uniformed men who have been sentenced for a set term in the U.S. Naval Retraining Command-the Navy's equivalent of a reformatory. Be havior problems one and all, the men have gone AWOL, committed thefts or sexual offenses, assaulted superiors or somehow violated one of the hundreds of "Rocks and Shoals" (Navy Regulations). In their state of military purgatory they run through a routine of work details, formations, exercise and orientation lectures. When their...
Down went the house lights, up came the footlights, and there before the curtain stood a tall, grey man whose daring dancing had once shocked the purists and made history in the dance. Ted Shawn, 63, is at home before any audience, but this audience was his special home-Jacob's Pillow, in the Berkshires near Lee, Mass., where he turned a weed-grown farm into the hub and Mecca of dancing in North America. Shawn introduced what he called "the apex of our achievement in presenting dancers at Jacob's Pillow," the Royal Danish Ballet. Then...
There was an air of concord throughout Geneva: experienced old Police Chief Charles Knecht (who has shaken the hands of a long line of grey statesmen who failed to make peace in his city) decided that around the lakeside villas of the Big Four "barbed wire will not be necessary...
...Chinese and North Koreans decided not to return to Communism and 21 American soldiers turned their backs on the U.S. In a grey drizzle one afternoon this week three . of the U.S. turncoats walked a path by the Lowu railroad bridge into Hong Kong and the free world...
First out was Otho G. Bell, 24, of Hillsboro, Miss., a round-faced little man in a poorly cut fawn-grey cotton suit; next came William A. Cowart, 22, of Dalton, Ga., a hulking figure with dirty white pants shoved into high Korean cavalry boots; last was Lewis W. Griggs, 22, of Neches, Texas, a tall, thin, preoccupied youth, carrying the only luggage of the three: a bundled-up raincoat and a pair of brown shoes dangling by their laces...