Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cost What It Will." Organized labor was out to punish him for being the author of the Taft-Hartley Act and leader of the forces that blocked its repeal. "Cost what it will," the A.F.L.'s William Green had vowed, "we are going to bring about the defeat of the outstandingly reprehensible Senator Taft." A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were prepared to spend millions (collected in $1 and $2 rank & file assessments) to defeat him. He had angered...
Such modest conservatives, entrenched in their green hills, might hold off the moderns indefinitely. They hope to do more than that: to create a summer center as renowned in art as the Berkshires' Tanglewood festival is in music. Plans are under way for a huge, round exhibition hall and theater patterned on 18th Century Vermont's barns, to make next year's exhibition bucolic inside & out. Artist Fausett, who helped hang last week's show, was particularly pleased with the idea. In a round barn, he mused, no one could complain of being hung...
...through a hole three inches wide, bored through the 50-inch lead-shielded wall. Physicist Dr. John S. Laughlin grasped a knob on a black panel and set it at 25 million volts. He set another knob at 100. Then, on a signal from Harvey, Laughlin pushed a big green button...
...described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring in short the field of writing." Some press associations "use their radio circuits to break in green men: When they begin to get good they are transferred to the newspaper wire." Thus, radio wire services largely fail in "their obligation to write brightly, intelli gently, informatively, entertainingly." The committee found that stories for the broadcasters were sometimes grey-bearded on arrival - anywhere from sev eral hours...
...learned to eat rat meat and think it tasty; once, he, even took in stride the information that he had just eaten roast Jap. He was frequently near death from malaria, and he left the jungle in August 1945, with a complexion the color of his jungle-green uniform. But before the month was over, he volunteered to go back on a military mission and was parachuted back into his "green hell" for another two months...