Word: greyest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economies were weathering the sharpest U.S. recession since World War II. Now there are signs that Europeans themselves have something to be concerned about. By last week talk of a downturn in European business, hushed when Europe's boom refused to bust even during the U.S.'s greyest months, broke out in loud tones. In Rome, officials of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization warned that the price bottom might drop out of Europe's agricultural market this fall, and in London Britain's cautious Chancellor of the Exchequer, Derick Heathcoat Amory, talked bluntly...
...uninitiated in art, the Museum is a somber place. One of them has called it "the greyest and grimmest collection of medieval plaster casts in America." The visitor passes caskets and kings, prophets and snarling gargoyles, and even one "wise" and one "foolish" virgin. Off the main foyer is a pleasant patio with a pool, overlooked by the Brunswick lion. This is a copy of the statue erected by Henry the Lion, founder of Munich...