Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the discreet curtains of the cafes, crowds jam the tables drinking wine or coffee and eating little plates of grilled shrimp or fried baby octopus tentacles. Silent, grey-coated policemen stand discreetly in the background with little to do. Order is so perfect that Spaniards-against all their temperament-wait for the green light before they cross the streets...
...Majesty's Loyal Opposition to witness in silence the liquidation of the British Empire. First there had been India, the brightest jewel; now, with Burma, that hated word "liquidation" had proceeded into the second syllable. An 18th Century statesman who scorns the 20th Century's grey impersonality, Churchill identified himself with his imperial cause. In a peculiarly Churchillian passage he said: "I have always followed [Burma] affairs with attention because it was my father* who was responsible for the annexation of Burma. ... It was said in the [18th Century] days of the great administrator, Lord Chatham, that...
What we all felt, knowing the resolute Swiss temperament in moments of emergency, was simply that the U.S. Legion of Merit ribbon would look sort of nice on those grey-green Swiss uniforms...
...Grey little Jafar Pishevari, the Azerbaijan leader, waited for word of support from Moscow. It never came. Pishevari capitulated, and then fled across the Soviet border with a few followers. Thousands of Azerbaijani lined the roads and hurrahed Gavam's troops with a cheer never raised before on land or sea: "Long live the Security Council !" The Tabriz radio now said: "Being desirous of . . . proving to the world that we want peace . . . we have decided to help the Government in its task. . . . Long live the sovereignty and independence of Persia...
...this doleful headline, the Liverpool Daily Post last week welcomed back 50 English war brides, who had tried life in Canada and found it wanting. As the liner Cavina was warped into the Liverpool dock through dank, grey mist, the homesick homecomers clutched their children and wept...