Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hyacinth. As the invasion entered its second week the Seventh was beyond such tactical baubles; it was swooping out northwest and northeast at top speed. Already it had secured for its supply establishments a good portion of the Riviera land of pink oleander, grassy seaside terraces, garden walls, pastel villas, lush shrubbery, handsome estates, hyacinths, white beaches and mountain roads that hang like cornices over the cliffs and sea. Already Allied fighter planes were fly ing from southern France...
Joseph Stalin, onetime choirboy and theological student, now an apostate, created the Council for Religious Affairs last month. Last week in a pastel-green-walled suite, still smelling of paint and plaster, thick-lipped, bespectacled Ivan Vassilyvich Poliansky was busy considering and passing on the requests of all Soviet churches except the Russian Orthodox.* At work on the floor below was Georgi Gregorievich Karpov, chief liaison agent between the government and the Orthodox Church...
Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. arrived in London last week, settled into a pastel suite (with a blue telephone) at Claridge's, spent the Easter weekend with Winston Churchill...
...pastel waltzes of the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus† were interrupted to report: "Hostile aircraft have turned westward." The operetta resumed with the aria, What Happiness to Forget What Cannot Be Changed...
...town, where the main highway, No. 6, curves sharply and passes around the base of Mt. Cassino, the Germans held the Hotel Continental, somewhat protected from Allied artillery by the lee of the hill. Its roof is gone, and its heavy, pastel-tinted walls have been scored by shellfire and bomb blast, but from the dark empty sockets of its windows German guns spit with terrible effectiveness. Once the hotel was nearly captured: the Germans holding it surrendered. During an explosive bombardment the hotel filled up again with green-clad German paratroopers. Three German tanks fired from the lobby, occasionally...