Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican backers of world organization as Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Ohio's Harold Hitz Burton. Said Delegate-Senator Vandenberg last week: "This will not be the battle of the century." But he would oppose any clubbing of the Senate into approval. And last week when trim, grey Harold Burton delivered a scholarly, three-hour defense of San Francisco, only three Senators were present to hear...
...whipped soldiers of the Wehrmacht in their grey-green uniforms were straggling back through the shattered cities. were all of a pattern. They walked fast and flatfootedly, their heads with their peaked caps thrust forward, balancing the packs on their backs. Seldom did they raise their eyes from the ground to see what guns and bombers had done. Some of the soldiers were hailed with cheers, flowers, kisses. Many a British U.S. soldier, dourly viewing these welcomes, felt that the German people were a little mixed up about...
...people have not gone out of their way to help the Navy or their families. For poorly furnished, cold, unpainted rooms they have charged the highest prices they could get. Indeed, there is no worse port in which a sailor can spend his well-earned leave than the grey misery of Halifax. In the length & breadth of the city he cannot get a seat in a movie or restaurant (and what restaurants !) without going ashore early and standing in a line often extending several blocks...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor dropped in on the Salvation Army in Manhattan-he in a brown and tan get-up with a black derby, she in a grey suit, matching beanie, sable scarf, pearl necklace, diamond clip, aquamarine-&-sapphire earrings. When the Duke shed his topcoat, a nosey bystander noted that it was a hand-me-down from the '30s, with a label inside the collar which read: "Prince of Wales...
...sight of a maimed Union soldier changed his plans. He became a passionate supporter of homes and pensions for disabled veterans. He tore the field of Gettysburg from the hands of souvenir hunters, made it a national shrine. He arranged the famed Gettysburg reunions of Blue and Grey. General Longstreet became his bosom friend. "[Your stand at Gettysburg]," wrote Longstreet, "was the sorest and saddest reflection of my life for many years; but today I can say . . . that it was . . . the best that could have come...