Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dutifully, Airman Norstad presented his case to Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, 90, chairman of the once-great committee, and to New Jersey Republican H. Alexander Smith, 78. Norstad had hoped that his prepared statement would draw some penetrating questions about the job military aid does in building NATO and protecting Western Europe. Instead, weary old Alex Smith asked him what "SACLANT" meant. Norstad patiently explained that it meant, as it had for six years, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic. When Smith started to ask other questions, Green cut him off: "It is undesirable to have...
Orators and newspapers sang of Moslem brotherhood and the glory of the nation as Pakistan celebrated its second birthday as a republic. Thousands lined Karachi's streets last week to cheer as President Iskander Mirza, surrounded by his bodyguard of Lancers in uniforms of scarlet, green and gold, drove by in his state coach to preside at a parade of Pakistan's military might, backed by contingents from fellow Baghdad Pact Members Iran, Iraq and Turkey. But beneath the brave fagade, Pakistan was a sick and sad nation...
...Mirror. To Londoners, the boldface heads and bolder prose meant one thing: while Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were paying a state visit to The Netherlands, tight-lipped Group Captain Peter Townsend, 43, at the end of his 17-month, 60,000-mile world tour, had driven in his green Rover to Clarence House, residence of Princess Margaret, 27. While hundreds milled around outside, the two chatted, sipped tea, then left separately after nearly three hours-he to a rented flat, she, beaming, to a movie premiere. Next day from The Hague came rumbles of royal displeasure. Outwardly composed...
...playwright. In 1953 he ground out four original TV plays and six adaptations, then took off for a year in France and Ireland. Three times since then he has "gone home" to the country of his ancestors to absorb "the tragic beauty of the land, dark and sweet and green...
...smoothest Technicolor that has ever creamed a moviegoer's eyeballs; but then, gripped by the fear that all this would be too subtle, they decided to smear "mood" all over the big scenes by shooting them through filters. Result: too often the actors are tinted egg yellow, turtle green-and sometimes phosphorescent fuchsia...