Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ablest operators moved out. Vinson's fat, fast-thinking general counsel, Ed Prichard, would follow his boss to the Treasury; Don Russell, a Jimmy Byrnes protege who had handled much of the war production side, had gone with Byrnes to the State Department. Others were gone or going. Grey, bespectacled Boss Snyder would have to find a new staff...
...under way, with four teams organized and their captains already elected. Grady's squad this week downed Woods' aggregation 3 to 1, Kennedy and handy scoring for the victors, and Woods putting in the lone loser's tally. Arias, squad blanked Vilushis' men 2 to 0, with Arias and Grey pushing through the scores...
That same day, three hours before noon, three great, grey ships stood inshore off the east coast of Honshu, 275 miles north of Tokyo. They were the Massachusetts, South Dakota and Indiana; running in tight formation with them were the heavy cruisers Chicago and Quincy (both named for ships sunk at Guadalcanal), while a dozen destroyers scudded around them. Promptly at noon, the big guns began to speak...
...submarine base at swank Mar del Plata, fishermen trolled through the wintry, misty Argentine dawn. Out of the grey murk loomed the bulk of a big sub marine. Its engines silent, it rolled gently with the waves. The fishermen noted the craft's unfamiliar lines, went right on fishing...
...chill, grey dawn, near Malta, Mont., some 250 people waited nervously. John Q. Stewart, Princeton astronomer, and General Electric's James Stokley, old hands who had worked on three previous eclipses, frowned blackly at the cloud-covered eastern sky. They had rehearsed for weeks for this event. They had taken a Lloyds insurance policy against the disaster of a cloudy day. They and their 60 assistants (including famed Princeton Physicist Ira Freeman and his wife), were primed with cameras, light meters, other eclipse-recording paraphernalia...