Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Historical Crossroads. In Nanking, behind the grey brick walls of Communist headquarters, gloom thickened. Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai defiantly walked out on "senseless" negotiations with peace emissary Dr. Leighton Stuart, and accused the U.S. of "complicity" with the Chinese Government in fanning the civil war. He flatly rejected a renewed Government offer to participate in the government and in the Chinese National Assembly scheduled for November. Said Information Minister Peng Hsueh-pei: "The Communist Party is now standing at a historical crossroads. . . . Do the Communists want to continue their attempts to seize political power by armed force...
...setting was the same as for the telephone company purchase a few weeks earlier (TIME, Sept. 16). The same Argentine officials crowded the Salón Blanco at Government House, the same newsreel cameras ground away. Juan Perón was present, smart in a grey lounge suit. Then British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper stepped forward to sign his Government's new trade agreement with Argentina...
Downstairs hung less tempting Temptations. Max Ernst's prizewinning entry showed the Saint racked by nightmare creatures who appeared to be devouring his loins. But the real shocker was Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's painting of grey, semi-decayed women, swathed in nibbling things and fishnets...
...first postwar piping competition of Scotland's Piobaireachd* (pronounced peebrook) Society, 35 brightly kilted professional bagpipers skirled and wailed like caterwauling cats on the warpath. To protect the pipes from the hazards of the Inverness climate, the contest, usually an outdoor affair, was held in a small, grey stone hall. The hall's acoustics put the pipes out of tune, and their braying was flatter than ever...
...welldigger (Raimu) is a widower trying to raise six daughters. The eldest girl (Josette Day), bored by the fumbling marriage proposals of her father's well-digging assistant (Fernandel), has a brief romance with a handsome air-corps" officer (George Grey). When her airman goes off to war and is reported missing, unmarried Josette disgraces her respectable father by giving birth...