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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Muted Green. With an interior designed by Henry Dreyfuss, the Columbine itself combines the accouterment of an aerial yacht and the functions of a flying White House. To its chief passengers, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower, the entire rear third of the plane is devoted. There a softly muted green-"Eisenhower green"-strikes a note of easy relaxation: grey-green carpets on the floors, rich green gabardine on the walls, white vinyl plastic on the ceiling. In the spacious stateroom, with its bleached walnut woodwork and grey-green-striped boucle upholstery, the Eisenhowers may fasten themselves with green safety belts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Travel Notes | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Bill and Laurie Nelson were among the quietest couples on Bethany Home Road, a well-tailored neighborhood just outside the city limits of Phoenix. Ariz. They owned their home, a rambling ranch house trimmed with apple-green cement blocks; they were surrounded by tasteful but not lavish trappings-Louis XIV-style furniture, a collection of miniature ivory elephants, a lantana-and-plumbago hedge planted and tended by Bill Nelson himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death of a Neighbor | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...chill rain spread gloom over Lydd airport one morning last week as Group Captain Peter Townsend oversaw the loading of his green Renault sedan aboard an air freighter. Curious sightseers huddled near by, but the airman had no last words for them, not even a farewell wave of the hand as he himself climbed aboard the plane. A half hour later he was gone from

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All Over | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...game will be Brown's last chance to climb past Columbia and out of the cellar of the League Its only victory this season was a surprise win against Dartmouth, 7 to 0, while the Crimson has a 2-2 Ivy record, including its own surprise defeat by the Green...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Crimson To Face Upset-Minded Bruins Today | 11/12/1955 | See Source »

...theatrical lawyer, who had only recently moved out from Scarsdale and thus was still on probation, waved a green-covered book and exclaimed with the new boy's eagerness: "Of course, I haven't actually read this, but I walked through it pretty carefully coming out on the train. Do you know what this fellow says? He says we spend most of our money on booze, foreign cars and regional stigmata. Stigmata, oh my God! He says we get drunker than anybody else. He says we keep electric wormdiggers in Hepplewhite chests. Now who the hell has ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guys & Dols | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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