Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marks of Kansas City, who had been best man at his wedding 27 years ago. He had only an irreducible minimum of White House aides. Twenty-three reporters and cameramen were isolated well astern in an escort vessel, the destroyer escort Weiss. As the yacht headed downriver under a grey, drizzling sky, Harry Truman stretched, left his guests and strolled off to his stateroom...
...also the worst year for Jerusalem's Jews. A few Jews still chanted against the ancient grey-brown Wailing Wall: "Because of the Temple which is destroyed, because of the walls which are broken down, because of our greatness which is departed . . .we sit alone and weep...
...happy as a group of college alumni back for reunion, 31 Catholic missionary priests and bishops arrived last week at a huge grey stone building overlooking the Hudson River near Ossining, N.Y. They represented some 400 Maryknoll Fathers scattered across the world, and they had traveled hard and far - from ten countries in the Orient and Latin America - to be at their society's decennial general chapter...
Neither the grey stone building nor its inhabitants had an air of contemplation, isolation or monasticism. The delegates laughed, quipped, swapped stories of their experiences like young returned war veterans...
Died. Metropolitan Eulogius (born: Vasiliy Georgievsky), 78, grey-bearded Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Paris, titular head of all Russian Orthodox dioceses in Western Europe and North Africa; in Paris. Eulogius broke with the Moscow church in 1931, accepted the Patriarch of Constantinople as his chief until 1945, when he returned to the Soviet fold...