Word: emerald
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...restless model, complained in one letter that "if he would only pose better, he would please me very much and we would have a much better portrait than the one I am doing now. The subject is good, with his flat, pale face and his red cap against an emerald-green background...
...lofty vaults and arches were modeled after palm trees. The altar was made of two rough boulders topped by a monolith and the simple carved benches resembled witch doctors' ritual chairs. With its glassless windows admitting light and air and its roof covered with brilliant emerald tiles, the church seemed like a cool spot in the jungle...
...Emerald Island. Meanwhile, the Senate was treading more cautiously. For some eight hours one day, the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees. At hand was a map of Formosa and the China coast, set on a metal tripod. The mainland was shown in a rich chocolate color, Formosa in emerald green. There were other maps, kept well covered and guarded by military personnel when not in use. It was a tense session. Said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "I recall that there was not one smile, not one jest...
...honey-blonde hair and emerald eyes of Marilyn Smuin, 19, a sophomore at Pasadena City College, plus her wellrounded personality (bust and hips 35 in., waist 25 in.), won her the throne as Queen of the Roses (66th annual tournament), and all the New Year's Day hoop-te-do attending the big event, the Rose Bowl football game...
...election in and election out, 60,000-vote majorities to his hand-picked candidates. White-maned Boss Crump, with a grandpappy grin and an eloquent gift for invective (he once said that an opponent would "milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence"), gave Memphis emerald-green parks, good schools and libraries, roared around town yelling "Hiya, boy" at anyone who would look his way (and all Memphians did), got rich on an insurance company that everyone in his bailiwick clamored to patronize...