Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rained frogs, thousands of little green frogs, in Massachusetts-or so said J. P. Valliere of New Bedford, who said he saw them. A Spokane butcher displayed a sign: "Choice Meats: The Management Will Accept Cash, First Mortgages, Bonds and Good Jewelry." Walter W. Brown of Onawa, Iowa lopped off five toes in his lawn mower, found four, had a doctor sew them on again. Lifeguards at Chicago's Oak Street Beach put on shocking-pink trunks to distinguish them from ordinary bathers...
...nation's youth were necking in drive-in movies instead of in shady lanes; teen-agers in Indianapolis referred to them as "passion pits." Iowa's 4-H girls got new uniforms-blue-green zipper dresses with short balloon sleeves-to replace their antiquated, long-sleeved, blue middy outfits. Los Angeles mothers complained that their offspring not only stayed awake until all hours because of daylight-saving time, but howled for refreshments. They asked the city council to draft an ordinance putting a 9 o'clock curfew on the tinkling bells of Good Humor wagons...
...waters of Lough Swilly pink with men's blood. Yonder they came, eight men of England's navy and that same young duke that married the king's daughter, strolling bold as brass into free Eire. "We want a navy snack," says they, marching into the Green Bay at Buncrana. "We want a typical navy snack, with plenty of steak and chips and don't say nothin' to anyone about the dook." Then off they go to the local for a pint apiece, to wet their whistle...
...Celia Shanagher and Mrs. Bridget McAnulty, the same that run the Green Bay, they wouldn't tell on a duke, now, but they could drop a gentle hint, like, to some of the neighbors. So by the time the navy boys come back for their snack, the population has turned up in such multitudes it takes the Civic Guards to hold them back. Down sits the duke and his friends to a mess of tomato soup, salmon, steak, eggs, chips, fish, jelly, pears, cream, coffee and cheese the like of which Buckingham Palace hadn't seen since Paddy...
...moment (because of a funds dispute affecting San Antonio's big Robert B. Green Hospital), the opening of Mrs. Starr's Good Samaritan meant that the city's Negroes have proportionately more bed space than is available to white San Antonians...