Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey, military sedan drew into San Damaso courtyard in Vatican City. Out stepped dapper, grey-haired Edward J. Flynn of The Bronx, fresh from Cairo, Moscow and Yalta. Eight minutes ahead of time, he and dark-clad Myron C. Taylor, Presidential representative at the Vatican, hurried to the private study of Pope Pius...
...Tory defeat, strangely enough, was annoying instead of pleasing to Ted Jolliffe. His party had just been shellacked in the February by-election in Grey North (TIME, Feb. 12); the CCF wanted no election now. Mitch Hepburn, who engineered the business, could grin at the defeat of one rival and the discomfiture of another, but there was little chance of the Liberals picking up many new seats. The man who beamed was George Drew. Now he could go to the people, contend that his opponents had sabotaged him, ask for a clear majority...
Bill Downs is no acrobatic super-scoopster of radio journalism (he has never yet jumped from a plane), but a quiet, grey-eyed, bespectacled graduate of the University of Kansas. He used to be a United Press reporter, joined CBS's London staff in 1942, reported by microphone from Moscow the following year. Since Dday, he has spent most of his time plodding along with the land forces in western Europe, is now assigned to the Twenty-First Army Group...
...followed from a regimental command post in a cellar the clearing of a row of houses. Reports were pouring in. Somebody had reached the balcony at Number 6. ... Badanov's platoon had just got level with the tall grey house. . . . Someone else's assault detachment had broken into a cellar. ... Then: 'We have reached the second floor and are fighting in the corridors.' ... By morning the houses had been captured...
...Nassau's palm-fringed Government House a barrage of phone calls and cables descended. For half a day the Duke of Windsor was not at home to any queries. Then he donned a dapper, grey check suit, pinned a red carnation in his lapel, and with his well-dressed Duchess at his side, gallantly went forth to meet the press and explain his second abdication...