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Word: greened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, I kept a color-coded calendar on my desk (numerals highlighted in green ink for 'good' days, red for 'bad' days, yellow for `iffy' days) as an aid to remembering when it was propitious to move the President of the United States from one place to another, or schedule him to speak in public, or commence negotiations with a foreign power," Regan wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regan Book Blasts First Lady | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

Dartmouth, however, ran away with the championship by dominating nearly every event. For example, five of the eight finalists in the discus wore the colors of the Big Green...

Author: By Chris Thorne, | Title: Thinclads Humbled at Heps Championships | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...that the dean of the Kennedy School formally offered potential donors Officer of the University status in return for a donation make clear that something stinks in Harvard's attitude toward fundraising, and it's not just the fertilizer used to ensure that, come Commencement, the Yard will be green with grass and the cash of nostalgic alumni...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: To Give or Not to Give? | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...policy. In short they get more attention. Unfortunately such stroking is needed to keep a modern university running. But Harvard can get by without $50,000 from its most recent graduates. Instead of breeding young fundraising zealots, whose hearts will pound 25 years from now at the sight of green grass, perhaps the University should try to instill some unity among all the diversity...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: To Give or Not to Give? | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...found was not what they had been promised. At the height of their empire, the Chambers gang controlled about half of Detroit's crack trade, running 200 drug houses, supplying some 500 more and raking in $3 million a week. The key to their success was the supply of green kids from Marianna, who were subjected to a regimen far more harrowing than Marine boot camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M Going to Detroit | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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