Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waldron Sr. was a small, grey, wiry man who kept his own counsel, spent most of his time at home hidden behind his newspaper. He was a rebel against steady work, a smalltime promoter of various large-sounding enterprises which never quite seemed to pan out. Father was a rebel in other respects. He disliked such contraptions as the automobile. He suspected such institutions as the telephone company; when he decided the company was cheating him on toll calls he had the telephone taken out, never would have it put back...
...tweeds, sucking on his pipe, or a cigarette, or a cigar-whatever came to hand-grey-haired, paunchy and tentatively smiling, the graduate of Franklin High School moved into the darkness of top leadership. The ancient William Foster was made chairman-actually, a secondary job. Eugene Dennis, as general secretary, became the little commissar...
...defendants were bureaucrats and diplomats, the technicians of terror and the bookkeepers of tyranny. In the glare of the klieg lights, they looked almost pitiful. When grey-haired Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker was led into the dock, a U.S. colonel's wife in the gallery whispered: "Why, look at that nice...
...news that Huang carried in a five-inch-thick sheaf of papers for the government was grim. At Acting President Li Tsung-jen's big grey brick house, Nationalist leaders conferred until 2 a.m. Exhausted and ill with high blood pressure, Envoy Huang went to bed. It was no wonder. The Communists did not want peace-they demanded surrender. Their eight points of last January had been expanded by 24 supplementary requests. Most crucial: the Nationalists must allow Red armies to cross the Yangtze...
...rises into the air, the sulphur dioxide combines with water vapor and oxygen to form sulphuric acid. The minuscule droplets pick up more water and a variety of solid particles (e.g., soot, dust), until the City of the Angels wears, instead of a halo, a hat of dirty grey smog...