Word: greener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he becomes bored or frustrated by domestic affairs, Nehru frequently flees to the greener fields of foreign policy, where the unpleasant consequences of irresponsibility are generally slower to appear. As Nehru himself sees it, India's foreign policy is based on two rational and respectable principles: self-interest and hatred of colonialism (which in Indian terms means domination of colored people by white people; subjugation of whites by other whites is irrelevant). To outsiders, however, Indian policy seems to be heavily influenced by a number of purely emotional considerations personal to Nehru...
...less ambitious and more poetic, the traditional banks of the Charles have become softer and greener, or perhaps it is the atmosphere that has become more relaxing and more colorful. A few authors with typewriters and beards peck and hunt for a minute, then close their eyes and listen for five. Touch-tackle games flourish only to pause when the refreshing pinks and powder-blues float...
...spring day in 1947, among the barren Judean foothills that rise above the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, a goat in search of greener pasture precipitated the most significant religious discovery in recent history. As a Bedouin shepherd pursued the animal, he stumbled on a hidden cave. For Biblical scholars, the cave contained green pastures indeed: the first of the now famous Dead Sea Scrolls...
...week, in a symbolic scene, Presidential Hopeful Averell Harriman and Presidential Hopeful Adlai Stevenson met at Stevenson's Libertyville (Ill.) farm, sat on white wicker chairs and gazed around at the smooth lawns. In a tone that meant he was merely being polite, Ave murmured: "Your grass is greener than mine." Adlai said nothing; he just chuckled...
...nearby Chicago most U.S. state governors, attending their annual conference and busily swapping guesses on 1956, agreed that Adlai's grass was indeed the greener-but that Ave's had considerable promise...