Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elks Club, barrel-shaped Warden Roy Best bull-roared with the boys and waited for his dinner. It was a nasty night outside. Snow swirled heavily about the high, menacing walls of Roy's place of business, the Colorado State Penitentiary, on the edge of town. On the grey stone towers, guards paced uneasily and strained to see through the swirling blizzard...
Armed with shotguns made from steel pipe, taking four guards with them as shields, they stumbled through six inches of snow in the prison yard to the north gate. Then the crop-headed convicts, shivering in their grey prison denims, battered off the gate lock and made a getaway...
...Grey-haired French Conductor Charles Münch, a conductor of the windmill school, lifted his baton and the cellos rumbled out a dark and ominous theme. Poet Claudel had first tied his heroine to the stake, then let her mind wander through agonizing flashbacks: memories of the coarse yells of the mob, a howling dog, rolling drums. Standout scene: Joan's trial. Claudel and Honegger make her judges animals, with Porcus, a pig, presiding. Porcus (dramatically sung by Tenor Joseph Laderoute) screams his charges and denunciations, and the chorus howls "Hérétique! . . . Sorci...
...done with some of the feverish zeal of the war, and in spite of some of the same shortages of materials. Steel was flown by plane to factories to keep production lines rolling; "expediters" hunted down parts and materials tucked away in obscure corners, or prowled in grey markets for steel and lumber; newspapers headlined the Scoreboard of production like bulletins from the front...
...Campaign. Battleground and antagonist were now clear to all the world. George Marshall pursued the campaign. One day in September, while the hushed, nervous General Assembly of the United Nations listened, the grey-haired man with the lined face and the dry, unresonant voice placed directly on the Soviet Union the blame for the world's woes: "In place of peace, liberty and economic security, we find menace, repression and dire want...