Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Paris' notorious Sante prison is a grim, rectangular complex of grey buildings peopled with waiting men. Most are waiting for trial in the criminal courts; a few are awaiting freedom and the end of light sentences too short to warrant sending them to departmental prisons; a grim handful await death in the prison courtyard. At 7:30 one morning last week, all of them were awaiting the same thing-coffee. The "juice," as the prisoners call it, is passed out to them each morning just a half hour after the day shift comes on to relieve...
...national flutter. Parishioners gaped up at Jesus as a boy in a red sweater, Mary in a black dress and black silk stockings carrying a shopping bag, Joseph in a Trilby hat and yellow zippered jerkin, John in rolled-up shirtsleeves and corduroy slacks, and Peter in a grey flannel suit...
...with a sculptress, recovered nicely in a blackout skit about a maniacal phonecaller. The only item in the show that might have disturbed the most timid network vice president was a one-minute "Behind History" skit about Barbara Fritchie. "Here's the flag, Barbara, so stick that old grey head out the window." Says Barbara: "You pay me the money first, then I'll stick the old grey head out the window...
...prodigious drinker of yorsh (a potent mass boilermaker made of six pints of beer to iV pints of vodka). Born in a reed-and-mud hut, the son of a miner, he had taught himself to read, worked as a pipe fitter. In bell-bottomed pants and a grey wool cap, Sunday costume of the Donets worker of his day, he was often seen around the taverns, downing yorsh and saying: "Beer's all right for the Germans, but vodka's the stuff for Russians...
These were homely analogies, a tough line folksily delivered, to conform with the current theme of benevolence. Folksiness is Khrushchev's style. Back in Moscow there is a Khrushchev family: dumpy, grey Mrs. Khrushchev, almost never seen at public functions, who once wistfully complained to a U.S. diplomat's wife that she did not go to the theater "as much as she would like to." The Khrushchevs have a downtown apartment in Moscow, a house in Lenin Hills of the boxy type favored by Nikita, nicknamed a Khrushchobka by builders, a dacha in the Crimea. In Moscow also...