Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saks Fifth Avenue display windows featured a new fabric shade-"good grey...
...Yellow dust rose over the city, and suddenly a strong, crazy wind blew up, first from one direction, then another. After a moment's silence came the small voices of human beings-shouts and cries which rose into a din throughout the city. At 5:27 a thin grey wisp of smoke crawled up behind the sagging department store. It grew larger. The fire had begun...
...last parliamentary appearance as Canada's Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King had put on a black suit, a crisp white shirt, a grey tie with pearl stickpin. Hardly anyone noticed him as he slipped into his chair in the green House of Commons chamber. Only 47 of the 245 members were at their desks. The rest had already left for their summer holidays...
...audience had pushed into every nook of the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and several hundred spilled over on to the lawn outside. At 8:30, a kindly-faced man, with the tiny red rosette of the Legion of Honor in the lapel of his grey suit, nudged his way through the chancel, climbed up on the organ bench, stretched his legs, and began Bach's Prelude in C Major. As he wove the huge fabric of the fugue, never losing a single thread of it, his listeners understood why Marcel Dupré is considered...
Jockey Rae Johnstone is a sunken-cheeked little man of 43 with cold grey eyes. French horseplayers call him "the Crocodile" ("he comes from behind and eats them up"). He never looked more carnivorous than he did last week at Longchamps, as he trailed the leaders around the turn, and then crocodiled ahead to win France's racing classic-the Grand Prix de Paris-by a length and a half...