Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boars & Lemonade. Hard on his heels, the Republicans' Earl Warren breezed into town followed by 6,000 whooping Republicans who had come down from Chicago in four special trains and twelve buses. Governor Dwight Green had the full treatment ready for Earl: a motorcade of 25 cars, a brass band, a platoon of state troopers, and aerial bombs. The grandstand was packed to overflowing. Warren spoke easily and informally-and for only 18 minutes. The crowd liked him fine...
Then he toured the fair the way a political candidate should. Escorted by Green and Illinois' Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, he ate California grapes, munched a hamburger, downed chocolate milk and lemonade. He posed with, but refused to kiss, the Toni Twins. "That would be like Jim Folsom," he explained. He laid a hand on the back of a 1,500-lb. grand champion Hereford bull, awarded a silver platter to the owner of a prize boar, and shook 1,650 hands in 55 minutes. At every stop, he was mobbed by autograph seekers. Illinois Republicans could...
...vacation substitute for the regular concierge at the Hotel du Tabac (so called because it used to house the French state tobacco monopoly). He shuffled into the main conference room, where a council meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation had just ended. Gaillard moved around the green-clothed table, carefully collecting cigarette butts from the overbrimming ashtrays...
...after day sat smoking and talking around the green table were trying hard to blend their differences. Despite serious remaining obstacles, they had achieved more harmony than anyone had had reason to hope. They were talking resources and money and credits and export balances. What that talk added up to was the slowly growing life of Western Union...
...conference room at the Hotel du Tabac, old Gaillard completed his progress around the green table. Pointing at the treasure he had collected from the ashtrays, he shrugged. "It makes cigarettes," he said matter-of-factly. "Mind you, as cigarettes go, these leave a lot to be desired. But then, any cigarette is preferable to a bunch of megots [butts...