Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey-afternoon last November, the U.S. had rammed the Palestine Partition Plan through the United Nations, carving the pocket-sized country into future Arab and Jewish states. Few had anticipated the violence of the Arab reaction. Since November, more than 1,000 Arabs and Jews have been killed. Last week the Palestine Arabs threatened an all-out war in "self-defense" if partition were finally pushed through (see INTERNATIONAL...
...bought his mother a fur coat, paid for two operations she needed. Once in a while, his mother still worked as a scrubwoman. "It's not the money," she explained in her broken English. "I'm just lonesome for my friends." At 39, Joe was beginning to grey at the temples. He gradually lost some of his shyness, cracked an occasional joke...
...Last year on the Don I witnessed a symbolic picture. I saw a half-filled grave, and by it lay a German helmet. In the grave lay a skeleton, only partly covered by the shreds of what was once the grey-green uniform of a German soldier. A sharp-edged fragment of a Soviet shell had shattered his face. The gaping mouth of the skeleton was filled with fertile loam and from this was already rising a curling shoot of convolvulus, bearing its delicate flowers...
...Bill Tilden's 6 ft. 1½ in. frame is bowed, his grey hair shaggy, and he reaches for his glasses before he can read a line. But he is anxious to make another pro tour, if "the public will accept me." In Hollywood last week, he shuttled from court to court giving tennis lessons to such high-paying movie clients as Mrs. Charles (Oona O'Neill) Chaplin, the Joseph Cottens, the David Selznicks. Said he: "There's a lot of money here for anyone who can teach the game...
...President B. 0. Miller, a grey-haired, soft-spoken man who took office a fortnight ago, is carrying on the tradition that members hang their private hats outside. When it looked as though he would be elected president, he reorganized his real-estate business (W. I. Hollingsworth & Co.) and moved himself up from president to chairman so that he could have more time for the Chamber...