Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phrase-"landlord mentality." A peasant married to a girl whose ancestors had owned a dozen cows had landlord mentality. In a final purge last fall, even this stratagem was exhausted, and old cadres resorted to accusing new cadres of "landlordism." Jails became filled with men in the olive-green suits and pith helmets of the Communist administrators...
...afternoon last week in the stuffy green Quonset hut that is the heart of the scrubby no man's land of Panmunjom, three U.S. generals, a British brigadier and a Republic of Korea air-force officer coldly confronted 40 North Korean commissars and military men. "I have a statement to make," began Major General Homer L. Litzenberg, U.S.M.C., in a level voice. Then, while the Communists listened attentively, he told them that the U.N. Command no longer felt bound by subparagraph 13D of the Korean armistice agreement-the clause limiting introduction of new weapons into Korea...
...Outs. Motto in mind, Dick Lee unveiled last week plans for an even bigger facelift: a mammoth $85 million, five-year downtown project drastically upgrading 96 blighted acres off New Haven's historic Green. Private investors, including Manhattan Real-Estate Broker Roger Stevens (whose past deals included the purchase of the Empire State Building), will replace century-old structures with a glistening, 18-story hotel-office building, new retail stores and office space. The Federal Government has earmarked $39 million for land purchases and clearance. Out of the city funds will come $7,000,000 for parking facilities...
When the auctioneer cried the last "Sold," the results were enough to make a collector see green. The 45 paintings brought in $874,000 (plus $147,000 in taxes), three times as much as the auctioneer had anticipated, and one of the canvases was sold for the highest known price ever paid for a modern painting. The painting: Gauguin's Still Life with Apples. (1901), a platter of succulent, Cézannesque green apples on an opulent green tablecloth. It went to Greek-American Shipping Executive Basil Peter Goulandris for $297,000 (plus 16.7% in taxes). Mrs. Biddle...
...road builders' monster machines were busy everywhere last week. They pushed across the green pastures of Illinois, through the swamps of Florida, over the hills of Arkansas, along the rocky New England coast. Unlike the nation's earlier road builders, who often followed Indian trails, cow paths and other roundabout routes of least resistance, today's planners lay out their roads from helicopters and planes with an eye to the shortest distance, then put their machines to cutting the highways over mountains and through trackless timberland, bridging lakes and rivers, spanning cities...