Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman, in grey, sat quietly near by. In a fresh-pressed, double-breasted blue suit, the President stood, glanced at the clock. It was a few seconds before 7 p.m.-the hour agreed upon with London and Moscow for the announcement of Japan's surrender...
...starter, out went three top members of the Stettinius team: mild, grey Under Secretary Joseph Clark Grew and Assistant Secretaries Archibald MacLeish and Julius C. Holmes. No tears were shed by those who thought Joe Grew lacked the drive and imagination for his job. Most Washingtonians agreed that MacLeish was not happily placed as the department's publicist, and few knew precisely what Julius Holmes had done (he was supposed to streamline the creaky department...
Wearing informal clothes and his mouse-grey fedora, Harry Truman strolled the decks, arm in arm with Jimmy Byrnes or Admiral Bill Leahy. At other times, he and Speechwriter Sam Rosenman lounged in the President's stateroom or sat on the open deck; there they wrote and rewrote the President's report to the nation...
...four of the famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts have been canceled, and another 16 of the scheduled 53 were umbrella nights, when the orchestra blew and fiddled but the cash register only tinkled. Last week the biggest deficit ($80.000) in Lewisohn's 28 years faced its promoter, grey-haired, peppy Mrs. Charles S. (Minnie) Guggenheimer, 63, the matriarch of New York's summer music...
...Silversmiths may absorb so much silver that their skin becomes slate grey. "Canary" is the name for an explosive-powder worker whose hair and skin have become red-yellow from tetryl. A foundry worker often has red-streaked forearms...