Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five minutes after Ike arrived at Camp David from Gettysburg 25 miles away, the first of three big helicopters bearing National Security Council members rattled crankily overhead. Yawing in the gusty grey air over the pistachio-green buildings in the Maryland woods, it plumped down on the muddy baseball field. John Foster
...Despite the unsettling side of "Operation Banana" -a highly successful exercise in Government mobility nonetheless-Administration leaders last week settled down at Camp David for conferences with the convalescing President. As Secret Servicemen loitered watchfully in the saplings outside Laurel Lodge, Ike's aides sat inside around a green-baize table. One day the NSC conferred with the President for two hours; the next day the Cabinet spent another two hours...
...photographers arrived early, giving their own thanks for the clear blue Thursday morning-and for Ike, light-footed and squire-like, who met them in a costume that shouted the autumn spectrum: green sport coat, yellow vest, polka-dot tie, tan Stetson. Photogenic as he was himself, the President came equipped with an even more picturable subject: his three frisky grandchildren, bundled joyfully in snowsuits and mittens, prepared to steal the scene as effectively as he hoped they would. With Ike and their father, Major John Eisenhower, the children played in front of the canary-yellow barn, watched...
...bring her alive would require no little of that art divine that made the statue of Galatea move. Julie knew that she was about to challenge "greatness" as that word was made woman in Bernhardt and Duse and Terry -to challenge it, moreover, as an actress still on the green side...
...National Football League will begin the first three rounds of drafting college players tomorrow morning. Green Bay, Pittsburgh, or the Chicago Cardinals will get the first pick of any college football star. The remaining 27 rounds of the draft will be held next January...