grey eminence
Britishnoun
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Brezhnev was Nikita's man in Kazakhstan during the first two critical years of the Virgin Lands program, has subsequently acted as the Kremlin's grey eminence in handling major problems in industry, space and defense.
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The habitual viewer knows that it has industry, because Winston Grimsley, a fuddy financier, is the grey eminence of these modest family fortunes.
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Thomas Mann, grey eminence of expatriate belles lettres, set an old pot aboil-ing again when he returned to his native Germany.
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As ghostwriter, campaign adviser, and grey eminence behind the conservative fortunes of Republican Senator Barry Goldwater.
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Iraq's grey eminence, ex-Premier Nuri asSaid, who had risked most in making Iraq the only Arab nation to join the pact, came to Ankara with more specific demands.
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