Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...florid images of Eisenhower, a genial, glamorous and affable general who had joined the Republican Party after he had reached the age for retirement from the Regular Army, and of Richard Nixon, "the Vice-Hatchetman slinging slander and spreading half-truths while the top man peers down from the green fairways of indifference." Dwight Eisenhower, cried Clement, "cannot Jim Hagertize his way through this whole campaign...
...miles off. Soon Andrea Doria came into sight two miles away. "Although the vessels were in a position to pass safely port to port, red to red, Stockholm went to starboard to give even greater passing distance. Andrea Doria, however, suddenly closed out her red light, showed her green light and veered sharply to her own left, or port, at undiminished speed, turning across the bow of Stockholm. Stockholm immediately went hard right and full astern, but it was impossible to avoid collision...
...clock each morning Harry Truman is tooling his green-and-cream Royal Lancer Dodge through the heavy interurban traffic on Truman Road from Independence to his five-room office in Kansas City's Federal Reserve Bank Building. He keeps three secretaries working full time, spends about $5,000 a month keeping up with the duties of an ex-President. All his expenses come out of his own pocket, but Truman was one of the few U.S. Presidents to save money in office, has since picked up some handsome fees, e.g., from LIFE and Doubleday for his bestselling memoirs, from...
...gaunt, impassive Marine staff sergeant snapped to ramrod attention before the officers at the court-martial table, the little sounds of restlessness in the green-walled auditorium fell off to dead silence. There was tension in the sultry air, for the court had stayed out for a seemingly endless four hours of deliberation. Now the fans whirred softly overhead, and sweat glistened on the faces of most of the spectators...
Standing beneath the oil portraits of Bolivia's greatest heroes of the past, a man who is himself an authentic hero of Bolivia today will receive this week the gold medallion and green-red-yellow sash of the presidency. Hernan Siles Zuazo, 42, is following in his father's steps: 30 years ago, Hernando Siles stood in the same spot in the Chamber of Deputies to receive the presidential insignia...