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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson's Libertyville Express rolled onto the main line for Chicago last week, and headed down the tracks with throttle widened and lights blinking green ahead as far as the eye could see. Only an earth-shaking derailment could keep Stevenson from rolling right into the nomination next week-probably on the first ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Libertyville Express | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...they admitted defeat, were taken off. Three hours later, while silent seafarers watched transfixed, Andrea Doria poised a polished fantail and motionless screws in the air, then slid down to the ocean's dark bottom. Behind her the sea bubbled and quivered a hundred hues of green. The surface shuddered, the bobbing rubble tossed on the swell until the liner was well down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Against the Sea | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...view from the apartment buildings that rim Chicago's lakefront is a pleasant, peaceful thing: the streams of cars on Lake Shore Drive, the narrow strips of green park, the rock-ribbed beaches, the glistening lake with its splashing bathers, and, in the distance, a crisp sail. From his 15th floor apartment, A. Kirk Besley, 53, superintendent of Chicago's Norwegian American hospital, often passed the time at his picture window studying the scene through his binoculars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Room with a View | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...time being, by his seconds and five skirling bagpipers from Canada's 48th Highlanders. Next came Archie, his entourage six uniformed U.S. airmen and his only music the raucous booing of a home-town crowd. As Archie stepped through the ropes to shed his cerise-and-green cape along with his shimmering black-and-gold robe, his natty mustache and carefully trimmed imperial chin tuft quivered with scorn for the ill-mannered fans. He was more than ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Some Sting for September | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...GREEN HILLS AND OTHER STORIES (205 pp.)-Walter Macken-Mocm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Invention | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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