Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentries stood at attention, as those who could reach the remote outpost paid their last respects. Among them was the man Hammarskjold had flown to Ndola to see: Katanga's stubborn President Moise Tshombe, whose troops were battling U.N. forces less than 100 miles away. Dressed in a grey suit and somber tie, Tshombe walked in briskly, placed a wreath of white lilies on the coffin, stood motionless for a full minute, bowed and walked out. "I knew him as a man with whom I could talk freely," he said earlier. "C'est triste pour...
...Others are wide, tree-shaded asphalt boulevards, flanked with government buildings, theaters, stores and hotels. Irkutsk's citizens are hustled to work in jammed buses in the mornings, and when the day's labor is finished, hurry home again to the cramped wooden huts or the crowded grey-and-yellow apartment blocks, exactly like those in Minsk and Pinsk and Omsk...
Last week the Kirov led with its ace, Tchaikovsky's fluid, graceful Swan Lake. If the costumes were a trifle tacky, Simon Virsaladze's sets were superb: subtle, misty shadings of grey, blue and green bathed in a ghostly aquamarine light to evoke the haunting, elusive beauty of the lake and its enchanted bird-women. But it was the dancing that the audience came to see, and the dancing overshadowed everything else. Before the performance was well under way, a lithe, vivacious ballerina named Alia Sizova stopped the show with her lyrical dancing in the pas de trois...
...march no more midst lines of grey...
...with the crowd singing God Bless America. In between, while klieg lights stabbed the desert sky, 9,000 guests milled and drank and watched an assortment of 64 entertainers ranging from acrobats and show girls to Stand-Up Comics Shecky Greene and Myron Cohen. The guest of honor, slight, grey-haired and merry as a grig, shook hands, soft-shoed with a bowler hat and sang Harrigan, That...