Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long before sunrise, the people of Paris started their pilgrimage. By daybreak, they had become a solid grey mass covering the Champs Elysées and the Place de la Concorde, solemnly waiting to pay homage to the American emissary. When finally they spied his carriage, behind its glittering escort of mounted, helmeted guardsmen, a shout of joy vaulted from their silence. Men who heard it said later that the cheer did not sound human, that the (lead must been been crying in it too. Children threw roses and violets. Sobbing men hid their faces and women knelt to pray...
...city's wartime grey is now covered with bright paint glistening in the long northern sun. Bombed buildings have been repaired. A dozen fine apartment buildings have shot up in one Helsinki district since the armistice of Sept. 19, 1944. There are new cottages and barns along nearby country roads...
Down the St. Lawrence, 150 miles from the doorway metropolis, lay Quebec City; its great grey stone citadel, whose guns had once guarded the New World for France, still frowned down on the narrow twisting streets of the Old Town. The habitant women in their dusty-black Sunday clothes still knelt to pray in ancient Chapelle des Augustines. With devout Americans they still trudged the 21 miles to the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre on pilgrimage...
Four students were on duty across from the small, grey Ruskin-Gothic Peruvian Embassy. They knew that it was giving asylum to ex-Mayor Juan Luis Gutierrez Granier, in whose municipality, it was said, students were tortured and killed last week. A swell-looking kid of 19 had an old Mauser rifle with a sling made of heavy twine. He had on two overcoats and a north woods peaked wool cap. How long was he going to stand there? Until Gutierrez came out. He thought there would be a try that night. It was cold as hell, but even...
Because of a brain injury at birth, an eight-year-old boy had never been able to sit or stand. Three months ago he entered Dr. Herman Rabat's grey clapboard house in Washington-for treatments combining physical therapy with a drug called pro-stigmine. Last week the boy walked...