Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elevator. The next day newsmen and photographers packed the lobby of the office building at 2 Park Avenue. Jessup was already in his headquarters on the 23rd floor. Chauvel and Cadogan threaded their way through the crush and into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...
...Hampshire was as green a team as everyone had hoped and expected they would be. Even without Hans Estin, who hobbled along the sidelines with his ankle in a cast, Bruce Munro's team was safe...
...payroll had actually earned their money on responsible state jobs. But most of the others, reported Thiem and Harris, had been riding the "gravy train" as "field investigators" and "messenger clerks." One publisher drew $850 as a "public works laborer." But many did render substantial service to Governor Green, said Thiem and Harris -especially at election time. They had faithfully filled their newspapers with editorials and stories ground out by the Green publicity mill...
Even though most of the players had been out the night before, they fought hard against a rough Green squad. The Crimson attack was little ragged, with the result that the fast passing attack plays didn't connect...
This was the only score for Harvard until long after the game was lost. Captain Bob Forsyth got the second after a long dash up the field from his defense position and Wilbur Davis scored the last at the very end against the Green second team...