Word: pastel
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...Premier Peter Groza, a chunky, wealthy man addicted to pastel tweeds and spats, relied heavily on Soviet Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky...
...materials were hard to get. But one managed. There were ribbons, lace, paper, straw, net-over-wire, pastel felt, cloth, solid feathers. And shapes showed gay imagination. There were tricorns, buckets, bowls, halos and even one with an alcove for Madame to fill as she fancied...
...keen on reorganization, anyway. Stettinius is proud of his attempt to redecorate the department's archaic architectural monstrosity. He created a pretty press room, increased the wattage of lights and removed the desks of messengers from the halls. But Cordell Hull balked at repainting doors in pastel shades...
...From the banks of the narrow Scheschuppa River on the border, a Red Fleet correspondent wrote: "Before us stretches Germany. Beyond this insignificant river is a steep bank, then fields with clover, brush, clumps of trees surrounded by wire and trenches, big barns with tile roofs, the red and pastel-colored roofs of houses. . . . We know that the earth beyond the Scheschuppa River will take a lot of our blood, but we know that without this blood humanity can never find peace...
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...