Word: greys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mile drive from Boonville, Mo. to Jefferson City. After he got to town, tall, grey-haired Attorney John Windsor decided to put off his tryst with history as long as possible. For a while he lounged in the lobby of the Governor Hotel. Then he went over to the Missouri and dropped in on the Rotary luncheon. Finally, with the air of a man who has been drafted for a patriotic pageant, he went off to the state capitol to help elect the President of the United States...
...approach life's grey December...
...Tsaolaochi, a grey brick station-house with a mud-walled village behind it, Nationalist forces had just set up a forward headquarters. Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...
Circles of Hell. The camera first discovers Virginia Cunningham sitting on a bench in the sun. A disembodied voice asks her where she is. She does not know. The camera, following her inside a hulking grey building, discovers (as if through her bewildered eyes) the locked doors, the prison bars, the caged human figures. Casually it takes in such alarming details as a woman giggling to herself, another sitting on the floor. Later, it surveys the rows of beds in the dormitory at night, when Virginia first realizes where she is, while the soundtrack weaves a chilling pattern...
Despite rising costs, woolen fabric makers were talking price cuts; clothing manufacturers, whose goods were not moving well at the present high prices, had cut back orders. Cotton cloth prices were already down; grey (unfinished) goods were back almost to 1946 OPA levels...