Word: greened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's soccer team added six prospects to a squad that finished fourth in the Ivies last year: Jean Gifford of Concord, Mass.; Amy Green of Short Hills, N.J.; Laurie Hauber of Brighton, Mich.; Andrea Montalbano of Miami, Fla.; Julie Scott of Concord, Mass.; and Chrissy Ulses of Springfield, Mass...
Withington understands acquisitive lust. "I'm a multimillionaire," he tells a visitor. "I'm president of the town bank. I own five houses and a church too." He is and he does, in this well-barbered hamlet of Hillsboro Center, N.H., a glossy enclave of green lawns and ancient white clapboards, with never a rusty manure spreader or junked '67 Plymouth sagging in the sideyard. His self-pleasure is bubbly and innocent. A visitor asks whether it is true that he takes 20% from each sale. "Yes!" he says, beaming. He is delighted to be ringmaster of the classiest...
...livestock. The rains needed for the red clay failed to fall three out of the past six years. In July the unrelenting heat went to 105 degrees, then 107 degrees. Mockery came in the past few weeks when the heavens relented, bringing floods followed by crabgrass. Southern fields look green, but the corn leaves are twisted in knots, the peanut crop has shriveled...
...daughters were born while we lived in that little house -- one was nine years old and the other three when we moved into our modest FHA-financed home. The intervening years were good because we loved the work of clearing those rolling hills and turning red clay into beautiful green pastures and fields -- grabbing up roots and stumps and hauling off endless rocks. It should have mattered that we never had any money at the end of the year, but we always felt the promise and the hope of a better year next year. I worked off the farm...
Charles then spoke with some of the peoplewaiting to greet him. He talked first with JoyceScolefield, a local resident, who held theofficial flag of Wales--a green and white bannerwith a red dragon emblazoned on it. A beemingScolefield, who drove down to Newport to purchasethe flag, said of her discussion with the Prince,"He just said that he was happy to be in Boston...