Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffered a great defeat at the Kasserine Pass. Among the reasons General Eisenhower gave for this setback was the 'greenness' of our soldiers and leaders and the faulty information he had to base his decisions on. But the important thing was that General Eisenhower knew why we suffered that defeat. The point I'd like to make is that today, though the U.N. has not reached all its objectives, we, as well as much of the rest of the world, recognize those objectives. And we know that we are green, too-young in thinking in world terms...
Early one morning, Chiang Kai-shek's Douglas Skymaster eased down onto the runway of Canton's Milky Way airport. The Gimo, wearing a jungle-green uniform, stepped out waving his sun helmet. It was his first visit to Canton since 1936. A waiting group of Kuomintang officials heard again his familiar "Hao, hao" (good, good). Chiang's bull-necked son, Chiang Ching-kuo, hustled his father into a waiting 1948 DeSoto, and the pair sped off to visit Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan. Li and Yen, who had not been informed...
Reading Histories. While this bargaining over his royal personality was going on, Leopold was catching up on some reading. One day last week, his tall blond figure clad in grey jacket, flannel trousers and narrow-brimmed green felt hat, he motored in his Bugatti sport car to a big Geneva bookstore. He came away with Nehru's Glimpses of World History, Churchill's Their Finest Hour and Laski's American Democracy...
Through the fall and winter months of the U.S. concert season, no group travels farther and gives more performances than the Trapp Family Singers (last season: 125 concerts from coast to coast). When summer comes, the Trapps retire to their 660-acre farm in the Green Mountains near Stowe, Vt. and let lovers of Bach, Palestrina and Vittoria come and sing with them...
Formula. In Isleworth, England, Samuel Taylor, 80, gave the secret of his long life: daily with meals, a brew of "stinging nettles, dandelions and fresh green shoots of a may bush...