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Word: greys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Field Marshal Montgomery left, the love feast was climaxed by a Kremlin banquet at which Stalin himself kept filling the teetotaling visitor's glass for repeated toasts. Just before the banquet, Monty had been given a caracul cap to replace his famed black beret, and a long grey dress overcoat of a Soviet marshal-reportedly lined with $8,000 worth of sables-to replace the dramatic white sheepskin he had worn to Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Balcony Scene | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...minutes later, greeted by a standing ovation, Nenni's round, smiling face emerged from behind the carnations. In a grey chalk-stripe suit with a tan shirt and a red silk tie, carefully disarranged to avoid any appearance of bourgeois neatness, he spent two hours and twelve minutes in passionate exhortation. As Nenni's voice rose & fell in practiced intonation, while he raised a warning finger, clenched his right fist, grandly embraced Congress in widespread arms, or modestly spread his long, strong fingers against his chest in a self-effacing gesture, men & women stared seriously and intensely, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Split | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Enough for All. Now gaunt, grey and ailing, Morgenthau has hired researchers to sift and summarize his giant diary. Last week one of them, Jonathan Grossman, a young (31) history instructor at New York's City College, gave the American Historical Association some revelations from the early years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: After Pepys | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...could hardly have chosen better. From his scrubby grey mustache to his trotting gait, Dr. Ivy is as American as baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Citizen Doctor | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...made the year's prize wallpaper was from Copenhagen. His winning design was a hand-blocked strip of black & white leaves and flowers on a grey background. Judges also liked a busy strip of his, full of little men running like all get-out (see cuts). Bent Karlby also designs houses to paste his wallpaper up in. During the war he redecorated a Danish resort hotel, from chandeliers to ashtrays. When comfort-loving Nazis took it over, Karlby hurried home to print an underground newspaper in his cellar. The Nazis almost caught him, but he escaped to Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Decorators' Choice | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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