Word: greyish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shop Adrian opened last week is done in two colors, a greyish blue-green and a greyish shell pink. Adrian's office is in blue-green, even the radio and cigaret stand. In the custom room, next to his office, the drapes are hand-woven of capeskin, suede and gold metallic strands, and hang from ceiling to floor. In the retail room the drapes also stretch from ceiling to floor, but here they are of cheap cotton duck...
...trails over which I had retreated in 1938 with Chinese armies driven back upon Hankow by the great Japanese force seeking to capture the Yangtze Valley and conquer China by one blow. It was almost like coming home. Mountains gave way to hills and around about their bases lapped greyish yellow waters. The Yangtze is in flood and we are drawing near our target, I thought. I crawled through the tunnel under the pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose of the ship, peering down...
Pinta, a tropical skin disease, caused by fungi which settle in the epidermis, permanently blotch the skin with patches of greyish violet or red. When the sickness runs its course, dark men are streaked dead white, fair men dull blue, sometimes tinged with green. (Mr. Wilson first saw green and blue men on a Colombia farm after a "night out".) Neither painful nor fatal, pinta is serious because it disfigures, is very infectious. It can be checked with antiseptic drugs, especially chrysarobin, powder obtained from a tropical tree, which is an ancient remedy of Indian herb doctors. But only tattooing...
...glance at these memorials, Joseph Stalin could see Russia's strategic condition. By a glance into a mirror, he could examine in a moment Russia's morale. He would see there two small, tired eyes under heavy lids; bristly upstanding greyish hair; a formidable, determined jaw. He would see weariness, and peasant cunning. He would see a very tough, strong face to go with a tough, strong past...
...wholesale notebook prices, and its owner worriedly predicted a further increase. Priority restrictions were damned by several men, who complained bitterly that they were having trouble getting metal goods. Chlorine, used in paper bleaching, is not now easily available for that purpose and future paper may have a slightly greyish appearance...