Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the last grey snow has vanished from the shady spots in back of Leverett House, the grass is blushing green along Memorial Drive, and Tom Bolles's galley slaves are churning the clear blue Charles once more, it appears that Spring has finally come to Harvard...
...neat, white stucco building on the Parochialstrasse. Here the 130 duly elected representatives of the people of Berlin-the "Stadtparlament" or City Assembly-convene in a third-floor room. Its straight rows of wooden benches suggest a classroom more than a parliament. But to the front, below grey curtains emblazoned with a huge emblem of the bear of Berlin, two large, raised benches rather suggest a courtroom...
...Strangled City. The two immaculately uniformed Russian officers stared down expressionlessly from their high official bench at the small woman in navy blue who spoke to the assembly. She was Berlin's Mayoress, grey-haired, matronly, bespectacled Louise Schroeder; and her hands gripped the rostrum firmly. She attacked the restrictions on transportation within Berlin and on the shipment of packages to the Western zones. Prosaic issues? Yes-but they involved orders of the Russian occupying army...
...home is in Oxford, but in term she lives at Girton College, Cambridge. Her day begins when a gyp (servant) brings a cup of tea at 6 a.m. Three times a week Dr. Cam cycles to a lecture hall, her steel-grey hair and black academic gown billowing in the breeze. She has been to the U.S. only once, to teach at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr, and that was 39 years ago. Most of her days are spent in tutoring, writing, helping edit the Cambridge Historical Journal, keeping the university archives, and campaigning energetically for the Labor Party. Social...
...pinch in steel, plus the added demand from EGA, had already put new life in the dying grey market. To spread the steel, some companies planned to cut customers' quotas under the industry's present voluntary rationing, system. Others, convinced that this would not do the job, feared a system of Government allocations by fall...