Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panting and wheezing, the concierge climbed to the sixth floor of the grey building at 53 Quai d'Orsay, overlooking the same stretch of the summery Seine as the nearby French Foreign Office. A 64-year-old World War I veteran, Louis-Christophe Gaillard was a vacation substitute for the regular concierge at the Hotel du Tabac (so called because it used to house the French state tobacco monopoly). He shuffled into the main conference room, where a council meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation had just ended. Gaillard moved around the green-clothed table, carefully collecting...
...later, the Danube treaty, which gives the Soviet Union control of the Danube as far upstream as Ulm, was signed by the delegates with two Ever-sharp fountain pens. The Western nations refused to sign. Ana Pauker, in high spirits, wore her twelfth new suit in 20 days (smoke-grey with white piping, New Look length). Her immediate plans: "A holiday trip on the Danube-our Danube...
...other peasant girls of the village of San Giovanni Lupatoto. While they worked in the fields and vineyards, laughed, danced at festivals, married and bore children, Maria grew more lonely. She dressed always in black, like a nun. Almost every day she made her way alone along the dusty grey road from her family's farmhouse to the parish church. She ministered gently to ailing peasants who came to her for cures. Though she performed no miracles, it was said that once, when she was caught in a drenching storm in the open country, her garments remained miraculously...
...Trail. In his pursuit of Traven, Spota had got almost nowhere until last year. Then, during the filming of Treasure, Director John Huston was confronted one day by a little grey man who called himself Hal Croves. He was Traven's secretary, he said, come in response to Huston's call for advice from the author. Huston guessed that Croves was Traven himself...
...stage with other Liberal bigwigs, dapper Louis St. Laurent, 66, Secretary of State for External Affairs, nervously fingered his bristly mustache. He was Mr. King's man and the convention's almost certain choice. In a nearby box sat chic, grey-haired Madame St. Laurent. As the ballots were counted, eager supporters kept rushing up to whisper to her: "Très, Très, Très bon." Each time she answered: "Attendez." They did not have to wait long for the formal announcement: St. Laurent on the first ballot with 848 votes...