Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bushy tree . . . with a short and usually crooked trunk . . . stout spreading rigid branches beset with slender spine-like branchlets, bright red and glabrous when they first appear, soon turning green, and in their first winter grey tinged with red, covered with a slight bloom . . . and ultimately dark brown tinged with...
...Sept. 1, 1939, the fishermen of Puck, Poland, lifted their faces to the grey dawn and saw man's new way of making war. It was the blitzkrieg, paced by the new instrument of air power. It rolled across Puck, rolled across Poland, rolled across Western Europe. Eight months later, in the space of 7½ minutes, it buried 30,000 Hollanders in the rubble of Rotterdam...
...perils to shipping. Strong winds and tides pumping through the narrow Straits of Dover have not only built up the Goodwin's seaward side into an almost vertical wall, but driven ships into the sucking grasp of their sands. At low tide, the Goodwins are a desolate, brownish-grey archipelago; between 1824 and 1854, determined cricketers sloshed through four matches on the Goodwins. The record does...
...intramural argument of the year was over steel: Was the 91 million tons of capacity enough to meet the needs of full employment? Steelmakers, haunted by fear of a recession and idle plants, stoutly said that it was. But the grey market in steel, which sold at double and triple the established price, said that it wasn't. So did many a manufacturer who bought a steel plant and went into the business to make sure he got what he needed. Toward year's end, the steelmakers hedged their arguments and started to spend some $2 billion...
...accolade of the Left when he was dropped by NBC last year because, in pinko PM's opinion at least, he was "too liberal." Now, St. John has written one of the longest (210,000 words) studies of Yugoslavia since Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...