Word: greyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actually there must have been plenty of chatter behind the grey walls of Warsaw's Namiestnikowski Palace, the 18th century abode that now serves as Poland's Cabinet building. Though the meeting had ostensibly been called to discuss defense matters, a more pressing issue to the East European Reds was the imminent (March 1) preparatory conference called by the Kremlin to discuss Moscow's ideological quarrel with Peking. This was the same monster rally originally scheduled by Nikita Khrushchev for last December. Kosygin and Brezhnev postponed the showdown's date and changed the tenor...
From a window of the grey, six-story U.S. embassy in Saigon, Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and U.S. Military Advisory Chief William Westmoreland gazed down on the violent scene. Massed in the street before the embassy was a cursing, fist-shaking throng led by some 300 yellow-robed Buddhist monks and nuns, screaming demands that the U.S. abandon Premier Tran Van Huong -and thinly veiled invitations that it get out of South Viet...
...castigating welfare-statism as "strength through misery," he demanded: "What is the use of being a famous race and nation if at the end of the week you cannot pay your housekeeping bill?" He was a devastating critic of the Socialist ministers who were busily dismantling Empire and clamping grey austerity on the land: "Attlee ("A modest man, and I know no one with more to be modest about"), Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps ("There, but for the grace of God, goes God"), and of course Health Minister Aneurin Bevan ("Minister of Disease...
When a northeast wind finally blew down the gulch, Boyer pressed the button. A cloud of grey smoke rose up with a ball of fire at its heart; out of it spouted flashes of light like giant Fourth of July sparklers. Observers heard a loud bang and felt a modest shock wave. As the cloud began to dissipate, three Air Force bombers swooped into it, collecting air samples. Then men wearing respirators and full safety suits stepped cautiously within 200 yds. of ground zero. Kiwi had disappeared. Nothing was left on the seared site but the railroad car with...
Died. Milton Clark Avery, 71, pre-abstract-expressionist painter whose studies of blocky, faceless figures and wispy, grey-green seascapes in the 1920s drew a blank with the public, yet so inspired such young artists as Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb that he became a pivotal influence on them, even though he himself had to wait until the 1950s before his own primitivistic, relatively representational canvases finally brought as much as $10,000; after a long illness; in New York City...