Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the brief hours of sunny weather, the President strolled around his fields, practiced chips and putts on the golf green east of the house. Between periods of relaxation and strength-building, he attended to some White House business. At week's end the nation finally got word that Dwight Eisenhower had talked about "politics...
...effort to increase the scope of available entertainment in the Summer School area, arrangements have been made for buses to leave every Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m. from Thayer Gate to take students to the Wellesley Theatre-on-the-Green...
...Touch of Blackmail? After George's colleagues had crowded around him to shake his hand, it was the turn of another old man, Rhode Island's 88-year-old Democrat Theodore Francis Green, to add up some of the real reasons why the foreign-aid bill was in trouble...
George and Green were persuasive spokesmen, and from the opposition party. Behind the scenes the Administration was driven to a measure that smacked of blackmail to try to bring its rebellious Republicans into line. From office to office on Capitol Hill went White House aides making the point that the President was again facing a decision whether to run for reelection. If his own Republicans in Congress refused to support him on foreign aid, the argument went, the President would be most discouraged. The implication: if you want Ike, and want to ride his coattails, vote for the foreign...
Tektites are bits of semitransparent glassy stuff, mostly black or dark green, found in many parts of the world. They cannot be explained as earthly minerals, so most scientists who have studied them believe that they come from space. In The Scientific Monthly, Physicist Ralph Stair of the National Bureau of Standards tells how he thinks they were formed and how they got scattered so widely...