Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over in Rome in late April 1953, she loved the bedroom at first sight, noted approvingly that the heavy-beamed ceiling-admired by a long line of predecessors as a fine example of Italian Renaissance décor-had been newly painted. The beams were in terra cotta green, decorated with cluster upon cluster of roses and rosettes. Many coats of heavy paint had been brushed onto the white roses to make them stand out richly against the background...
...Towards Equality" snapped the London Economist last week, "was published under a cover coloured green, some would say, for envy...
...Upper House, hoping to be able to revise Japan's "MacArthur Constitution" to make possible faster and more open rearmament. They came out of the election lucky to have held their own 122 seats (out of a total 250), had to watch their smaller ally, the Green Breeze Society, take a beating. The gainers were the recently united Socialist Party, which picked up twelve seats...
Unaudited Auditor. Reporter Thiem, a 1949 Pulitzer Prizewinner (with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Reporter Roy Harris) for his series exposing state payoffs to 51 downstate editors during Governor Dwight Green's administration (TIME, May 9, 1949), started out by delving into Auditor Hodge's payroll. Right off he found that the list was padded with a Hodge-podge of political bosses, cronies and relatives of the auditor, even included Hodge's personal airplane pilot as a $525-a-month "clerk." Asked why Saline County's Democratic Chairman Harry Erton was on the auditor...
Pennsylvania (74) : 38 pledged to Stevenson, with the possibility that Governor George Leader and Pittsburgh's Mayor Dave Lawrence can increase his total to 60. The other 14 are swayed by Philadelphia's noncommittal Democratic City Chairman William Green, who has urged that Pennsylvania go slow on Stevenson...