Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first trickle became a stream, and by this week upwards of 100,000 men had trooped off the grey ships and out of the big grey airplanes. The great migration of U.S. soldiers from Europe...
...barracks sally-ports, sudden as buckshot, burst cluster after cluster of one of the best-disciplined groups of young men in the world. Uniformed in grey and white, studded with shiny brass and topped with towering, plumed "tarbuckets," they fell in quickly, wheeled sharply, flowed in one trim mass onto the broad green Plain that tops the granite-cliff shores of the Hudson at West Point...
Flanking the Plain, under the shade of the great elms, stood excited parents and friends. Among them, more subdued but more deeply moved, stood an older part of the Long Grey Line of West Point graduates. At a booming command, some 4,800 white-gloved hands snapped 2,400 rifles to "present arms." Front & center, to the strains of Alma Mater, marched the 853 members of the class of 1945, the largest in West Point history. Then the Corps, company by company, wheeled and passed in review, rank on rigid rank saluting with eyes right, and being saluted in turn...
...Georgian Terrace Hotel, Courtney Hodges and his bemedaled and beribboned entourage got out of their cars. A tall, grey-haired woman wearing a bright red hat and a corsage of orchids leaned forward as they passed. She called to the General: "Remember me?" The General's sunburnt face lit up. He stopped to give his wife a kiss-the first time he had seen her in 15 months. Then he climbed the platform to make the first of many speeches...
Every year the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 members) elects a Moderator-a largely honorary but distinctly honorific post. In Minneapolis last week the church's 157th annual assembly chose tall, grey, bespectacled William Blakeman Lampe, pastor of St. Louis' big (1,500 members) West Presbyterian Church...