Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warm a small coffeepot). Several children who had been playing in the yard eyed us closely. They too were prisoners (the Communists use children for petty spying and to plant explosives, the guide said). Most of the other prisoners, standing in military formations, were singing. Phrase by phrase, the grey-uniformed men followed their tenor leaders in one song called I Love My Gun, another, Victory Song. They sang in excellent unison, breath steaming in the cold...
Rebecca West is a novelist of note ( The Thinking Reed), a distinguished literary critic (The Strange Necessity). But, above all, as she proved in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), she is one of the greatest of living journalists...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, faced with the prospect of boosting subway fares, told an audience: "[It] isn't my fault that the nickel got grey-headed and bald. It has lost its teeth and hair ... it can't buy anything any more...
Cato & Mr. Shylock. It was a typical day at the Assembly. Beyond the dull-orange doors, guarded by U.N.'s own police in bluish-grey uniforms, sat the spectators (mostly matrons and students) in a subdued glow of public spirit. From the rostrum at the far end of the huge hall, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato...
This anthology of recently written British poetry, fiction and criticism is a painfully faithful reflection of current British life: drab, grey, intelligent, courageous...