Word: greys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deck. We stood at once, swaying gently to match the rocking of the ship, and waited for the chief to come and tell us the plan of the day. I would try to guess, before going topside, if long shadows would lie in front of me on the grey hull, or if the early morning sun would make me squint at the glare off the blue waves. Of course there was no way to tell; the ship just steamed in circles, in the same area of the Caribbean, for 22 days...
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...pastime, and meteorites terrify intrepid explorers. The mood is antic, but the True West is not always the most appealing of places. Still, Joseph Walker is its true exemplar, and Bil Gilbert is its true celebrator. Those in search of myth should try Louis L'Amour or Zane Grey...
...well-lighted by two large windows that overlooked the Yard. I had arranged my desk and bookcase by the corner beside one of those windows. There, late every afternoon, with my roommates scattered to Lamont or some other sanctuary, I sat with my notebook, my Latin lexicon, my small grey copy of Catullus, and a radio--carefully turned to the gravelly voice of "Symphony Sid, your musical host who loves you the most...
...Dies Irae is near, and it is always near, then it is our duty to survive." Merely to survive is not enough; the risky quest to meet the near-legendary American soldiers is an opportunity to infuse a sense of adventure and myth into a cluster of lives grown grey and sodden under years of Fascist rule. So they make their way through the foothills, while the partisans and the straggling black shirted Fascists (looking like an army of scarecrows) wage skirmishes around them...