Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration forces won handily. At that point, however, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson rose to say that his tally of the vote on the original motion did not agree with the official figure. In the midst of the roll call, Johnson had persuaded Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Green to switch his vote from flexible to rigid. In the confusion the tally clerk counted Green on both sides. With Green properly recorded, the vote...
After all, "nothing, not even a blizzard will stop the Irish," declares Daniel M. O'Sullivan, originator of a state legislature bill to make St. Patrick's Day a legal holiday. Blizzard and all, 50,000 wearers of the Green are expected to slosh through South Boston streets at 2 this afternoon, in honor of their patron saint...
Every effort will be made to keep instruments thawed out, band manager R. Scott Dills '57 said yesterday. The repertoire will include "Marching to Tipperary," "McNamara's Band," and "The Wearing of the Green." Only an occasional intrusion of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" will be permitted...
...seeking North American tourists are discovering Jamaica and echoing Columbus. The lush British colony, only three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...
...spaceship's atmosphere is a problem too. Its oxygen will have to be replaced as it is consumed, and the carbon dioxide from the crew's lungs will have to be disposed of. Both jobs can be done at the same time by green plants, which separate oxygen from carbon dioxide. With this system in operation, the spaceship would be a miniature of the parent earth, where plants and animals, acting together, recycle the atmosphere...