Word: iron-grey
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...Iron-grey, Argentine-bred Talon charged from last place to first to nose out On Trust in California's $102,500 Santa An ita Handicap, the world's richest race. In Florida's Flamingo Stakes, the horse that is supposed to have the inside track on the 1948 Kentucky Derby - Citation -romped home by six lengths in near track-record time...
...From iron-grey clouds a bitterly cold rain fell on 5,324 athletes from six nations. The Communist daily L'Humanite had invited them to Paris' Le Tremblay race track to spread international good will (and Communist Party publicity). The good will had failed to materialize...
...treaty for his beaten country, Italian plenipotentiary the Marchese Meli-Lupi di Soragna put on his best black tailcoat (now a little tight) and his striped pants (ever so slightly frayed at the cuffs). Outside, in the courtyard of the Italian Embassy, he patted his top hat, caressed his iron-grey mustache, and glanced at the clouded sky. To Paris Cop PauL Simon, on guard by the gate, Soragna remarked: "Some rain coming, I think," and after a pause, "I have a disagreeable task this morning." Cop Simon merely nodded cheerfully...
...also a man with one of the most unusual faces in public life. It is lined and jowly and the nose is long. Under a shock of coarse, iron-grey hair are widely spaced, bushy eyebrows which slope toward the cheekbones, veiling heavy-lidded, heavy-circled eyes. He looks like an extremely dignified sheep with a hangover. But he is not at all like a sheep, and he never has a hangover...
Wittiest, most serious paradox came from iron-grey, satirical New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin: "We are now in a period of profound peace, which is the last we are likely to have for some time to come. . . . When the war is over, the period which we shall enter will be one of the greatest difficulty and danger...