Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most magnificent in the world was dedicated last week in Washington, D.C., and the President of the U.S. took his shoes off for the occasion. There had been considerable nervousness over how President Eisenhower would observe the Moslem custom of removing shoes on entering a mosque. Grey cotton slippers had been prepared to slip over his shoes, but Ike decided to go all the way, shed his new black oxfords before he put on the slippers; Mamie took off her white pumps and stood in her nylons. Then they stepped across the threshold on to a carpet sent...
...turned steely grey with the approach of the monsoon, but in the laced paddies of North Viet Nam's Red River delta last week, the rice still stood thick and unharvested. The Communists' vaunted land-reform program had gone badly wrong. In some areas it had created such chaos that no peasant knew whose land he was to harvest, and whole villages had turned savagely on their Communist mentors and run them out of town...
Much of the new political approach originates from a Jesuit priest close to the Vatican-grey, ascetic Father Riccardo Lombardi, who heads a new organization called Per un Mondo Migliore (For a Better World). To the "Better World" school in the Alban Hills near Rome, priests come from all over Latin America to hear fervent weeks of lecturing on the new policies. Moreover, Father Lombardi recently traveled to Mexico, gave a special course to 100 bishops, including Cardinal Luque. gathered from all Latin America. His student-priests can use the church organization as an ear to the ground that...
...dipper of water and suddenly collapsed in a thunderclap. Who turned away from the staring match to help her? Mr. Black, who thereby lost the match but established more convincing angelic credentials-and helped to show that black and white are not always what they seem, and even the grey of skepticism may serve a lofty...
...Street and nearer the State Capitol, an old man used to sell catnip. He kept his stand next to the Old Granary Burial Ground for over forty years until he retired just after the war. During the war, the dome on the State Capitol on Beacon Hill was painted grey, but now it is gold again...