Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades, perhaps centuries, before the woman called Marie Harel was born, farmers and their wives in the green, rolling valley near the Norman town of Vimoutiers were making a rich, creamy cheese known as Camembert. Like the rest of them, Marie, whose years spanned the latter half of the 18th century, probably made and relished the cheese herself, but beyond that, no one in Vimoutiers recalled that she had any special connection with it. There was, true, a local legend that one of Marie's relatives had once been received by Napoleon III and had given...
...They keep talking about the iron curtain," complained a Rome cab driver last week, "but it's not the iron curtain that worries me. It's the green curtain that comes down every morning between me and my cabbage." In the argot of workaday Rome, the green curtain is the term used to describe the veil of mystery behind which the shrewd middlemen in the city's huge wholesale vegetable market operate to send the prices of simple foodstuffs soaring...
...city tour. The crowd, a cross section of the musical public from teen-agers to grandparents, was there to listen rather than to participate. When slight, unassuming Bandleader Mantovani walked solemnly on stage, the crowd seemed to squirm with delight. When he played such favorites as Always, Green Sleeves, Moulin Rouge and Schubert's Ave Maria, the communal catch in the throat was almost audible. Afterwards, autograph hunters queued up quietly outside his dressing room. They received his dignified thanks and left, pleased and satisfied...
...nest reporting the movements of the fast-approaching ship. When he came back out onto the port wing of the bridge, he saw the sight he would never forget. Before him in the dark Atlantic loomed the brightly lighted shape of a passenger liner, showing her starboard green running light, and moving fatally and majestically across Stockholm's path. "Hard starboard! Full astern!" The desperate orders rang out again in the sedate courtroom. "I saw there would come a collision," testified Carstens-Johannsen, still even-voiced, still calm. "It was a collision situation. I had to stop my ship...
...Paris, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau demonstrated that his talents are not limited to diplomacy when he published his third volume of fairy tales, L'Ourse aux Pattons Verts (The Lady Bear with the Little Green Paws), a group of stories about romantic princesses ready for marriage, fish that talk and a lady bear named Clementine, who is dedicated to an ancient Gallic ideal: liberty...