Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mead; $3), drops a fictional atom bomb on a U.S. industrial town and morbidly watches the gory disaster work itself out. World War III comes to Harrington, U.S.A. with a touch of abracadabra-jabber at the air defense control towers: "Three. Multimotor. Low. One minute. Alpha Quebec Two Four Green . . ." This means enemy bombers. Author Caidin, a science writer, observes the beginning of the cataclysm through the little eyes of Henry Thompson, a jelly-spined civil defense map plotter who is quivering in his movie seat when the warning sirens sound. His wife is the first of 189,868 victims...
Official timekeeper John E. Lind clarified the situation somewhat tonight. In the New Haven Arena, the green light signalling the end of a period is not automatic, but is operated by the timekeeper, who lights it when the clock show no time is left. Lind said he based his nogoal decision on the fact that "the clock time is left. Lind said he based his nogoal decision on the fact that "the clock showed 0:00 before the puck hit McVey's stick." McVey's subsequent shot, then, came after the game was over, and the manual delay in turning...
...backboards were Dartmouth property last night, for the hustle in Cambridge won't make two six-four players the equal of one at six-eight. Clearing 61 rebounds to the losers' 40, the Green whipped the Crimson, 86 to 71, at the Blockhouse last night...
Dartmouth's Egil Stigum led a potent Green ski team to victory Sunday in the annual Harvard-Bromley Invitation Slalom Meet at Peru, Vt., as the varsity finished fourth out of a field...
Later, Carol made her bid, her green costume and rhinestone choker glittering through a light snowfall. She, too, repeated her Olympic performance. As she whirled and leaped to the beat of Adolphe Adam's If I Were King, her near-flawless execution brought the chilled crowd to its feet. Even one of the judges broke into spontaneous applause. When the scores were announced, the 16-year-old trouper, after a long year of competition as an also-ran, was the world champion. "Mother," she cried...