Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raced ahead on the last twelve miles into Wanting. As we rounded a bend we saw what seemed to be the Chinese Army. They were dressed in ragged uniforms, patchworks of grey and faded blue. Their guns were old and worn and they were hauling their artillery up the inclines by ropes...
...slowly changed. In Stalin's youth his face had been delicately handsome, but revolution, war, power and, above all, will had abraded it into somber strength. The hair, which had been purplish black like most Georgians', and grew far forward on the low forehead, had turned grey. The eyes, which had once peered out from velvety depths of unfathomable distrust ("Lenin trusts Stalin," old Bolsheviks used to say, "and Stalin trusts nobody"), had acquired an expression almost of authoritative benevolence...
...Ontario riding of Grey North, the political temperature rose. Cried CCF Candidate Albert Earl Godfrey: "We should . . . conscript wealth and industry as well as men." Cried Tory Candidate Garfield Case: his opponents were "outsiders," the CCF was fascist, General McNaughton was "incompetent." Cried Liberal Candidate Andrew B. L. McNaughton, National Defense Minister: "The Canadian Army overseas is being adequately reinforced...
...Candidate Case. Overseas, he said, he had found plenty of evidence that reinforcements were inadequate. He would tell the voters so. To offset his speeches, Navy Minister Angus L. Macdonald reportedly was rushing home from London. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King himself leaped into the campaign again. To Grey North's voters he addressed two messages...
When Candidates Case and Godfrey stated flatly that they would not withdraw, Mr. King announced that the Grey North election would go on as scheduled. But plainly, win or lose, he was getting ready to call it a day. In Ottawa, practically everyone was betting that dissolution of Parliament was just around the corner, that Canada's next general election would probably come in the spring...