Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suppose the student were to conscientiously strive to maximize his own interest and spend every coupon in the book. If he were thrifty this would cost him no more than $300. However, no sensible person would be content with saving $7.50 on a grey flannel suit if by buying two of them he could save...
DDay: Overcast and grey. At 1600, Giap orders gunfire against the five remaining French strongpoints in the 12-by-4-mile valley. At 1630, black-garbed Communist infantry come at a run for the southern strongpoint. It is only a feint. Half an hour later 105-mm. fire hits the northeast and southeast strongpoints, and Communist infantry moves into trenches near the French barbed wire...
...Jesus and stopped at the decaying old courthouse. Two prisoners stepped out. From the watching crowd a woman and a small girl darted forward, crying, "Felix! . . . Papa!" The woman tried to kiss the husband she had not seen for almost three years; the child threw herself into his arms. Grey-clad police intervened. "In with you!" they said gruffly, and the two prisoners disappeared into the courthouse, to join 15 others for trial...
...Lord Grey de Ruthyn, the meeting chairman, pointed out that the Queen Mother's horse had been scratched before the race began, but Miss Horsfall was not one to give up in a hurry. "I saw," she replied with spirited irrelevance, "that young Prince Charles was having his first lessons in shooting deer." The league finally agreed to write Queen Elizabeth, whose stable includes 36 thoroughbreds, and ask that the royal family pronounce itself against the "cruelty" involved in the sport of kings and queens. Her point won, Miss Horsfall briskly traveled the 1,600 furlongs back to Leeds...
...List. In Thurmont, Md., burglars broke into Gordon P. Gaver's snake farm, made off with a king snake, a grey rat snake, two corn snakes, a five-foot boa constrictor...