Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approach to each frame; indeed he had whole fields and streets sprayed with pigment to produce precise shades of mood and meaning. Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity, from craven yellow and life-brimming green to violent, passionate crimson and the grey of total despair...
Dawn was breaking as a trio of trucks and Jeeps rolled into the grounds of the Red Chinese embassy in Burundi's lakeside capital of Bujumbura. Steel-helmeted Burundi troops stood by, watching rows of Chinese stagger out of the low, grey stucco building carrying luggage and huge bundles of documents. Then Peking's Ambassador Liu Yu-feng and his wife glumly entered a black Mercedes for the trip to the airport, where an Ethiopian Airways DC-6 stood waiting. The airport porters were most emphatically ordered not to touch so much as a suitcase handle...
...Grey Flannel...
Business needs men who think creatively rather than men who merely assent to others' ideas," Blough said. "Teamwork does not mean a loss of individuality," he asserted, "and you don't have to wear a grey flannel suit...
...matter that the skies were grey, the Bois wrapped in mist. For Parisians, spring is at hand as soon as the couturiers have decreed what women will wear to greet it. It was that time last week, and from all the portents it will be a spring to remember...