Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torn out for being unready. In most pavilions there were similar last-minute crises. But after workmen had performed a herculean overnight cleanup job, Belgium's tall, shy King Baudouin, 27, formally opened the first world's fair anywhere since New York's in 1939. Under grey skies and an umbrella of 50 Belgian air force jets, the bespectacled Baudouin proclaimed in French and Flemish: "The aim of this World's Fair is to create an atmosphere of understanding and peace...
...campaign that the United Federal Party, even with Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead, 604. A grim and grey-faced Whitehead promptly ordered dissolution of the Southern Rhodesia Parliament and new general elections in June. His defeat was widely taken as proof that South African-style ideology has at last established a beachhead north of the Limpopo...
Polly had been working for that performance ever since, back in 1955, a grey-haired lady approached her, after she finished a singing stint in the glittery Persian Room of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, and said that Polly reminded her of Helen Morgan. Polly's admirer turned out to be Lulu Morgan, Helen's mother. Polly promptly bought the TV rights to Helen's life story, sold them at cost ($10,000) to CBS with the help of Freddie Fields, a Music Corp. of America vice president who is Polly's agent and husband. Polly...
...leave your nice, comfortable, air-conditioned home to go out and sweat in a drafty, dirty, dingy baseball park? Ballparks are almost all old. They are built in the poorer sections of the city. The toilets at most ballparks are a germ hazard that would turn a bacteriologist grey. Why, when I came to the Dodgers, I spent a quarter of a million dollars just to change the urinals, and Branch Rickey, who was the general manager, nearly had a stroke. He couldn't comprehend spending that much money on the customers when we could spend it on ballplayers...
Marjorie Morningstar (Warner) speeds up the plot of Herman Wouk's bestseller, but the telling still takes a long 123 minutes. Though Marjorie (Natalie Wood) is deprived of that mad moment of youthful abandon with her lover (Gene Kelly), she at least avoids ending up with grey hair, suburbia and a stuffy lawyer. Instead she goes up to re-examine the summer resort South Wind, spends a few minutes staring at the still irresponsible Kelly, and decides to leave him and his world forever. "Say, you've really grown up, haven't you," says the resort manager...