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Word: greys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Harry Bridges' boys were struck by the kind of small, sharp stab that stings, even if it doesn't gravely wound. Thirty-three members of the A.F.L. Seafarers International Union were sneaked aboard the grey and white freighter Steel Flyer. Non-union stevedores had loaded 6,200 tons of raw sugar aboard it. At 9:10 p.m. one night, to the chagrin of the strikers, it sailed away, bound for the East Coast of the U.S., where Joe Ryan's A.F.L. longshoremen-long sworn enemies of Harry Bridges-would willingly unload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: No Time for Comedy | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...high-school sophomore from Somerset, Mass., Shirley May France has blonde hair, blue-grey eyes, stands 5 ft. 10 in. and carries her 158 lbs. extraordinarily well. Her father started coaching Shirley May when she was six, but has now handed the job over to Harry Boudakian, who coaches sports at Somerset Hugh. Boudakian put weight on Shirley May, makes her go to bed six nights a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Trudy | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...York, Publisher Sulzberger replied: "I have always assumed that a conversation with the Pope was as confidential as one that might be had with the President of the U.S. . . ." The good grey Times printed the Truman anecdote in full, together with Publisher Sulzberger's reply, coyly headlined the story: TRUMAN THE VICTOR AND IT IS ADMITTED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Confidential Stuff | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...London's Britannic House. They sit around an oval mahogany table beneath a huge, hanging globe of the world which helps them follow Anglo-Iranian's worldwide operations. This week, they were there for the company's 40th annual meeting. With a Scottish twinkle, gaunt, grey Sir William Eraser, for eight years Anglo-Iranian's chairman and operating head, imparted the good news: Anglo-Iranian had turned in 1948 earnings of ?50.7 million ($204.3 million) before taxes, the biggest in its history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Under the Big Globe | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Emily." She turned her head . . . towards him helplessly . . . Dorset said in his sultry voice, his voice of a purring tiger: "I am going to kiss you, Emily. Do you mind?" She felt herself dissolving . . . His eyes, clear and ice-grey between their long lashes, were full of moonlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pish Pie | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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