Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson, worried by surplus farm production, had a hard time making up his mind on the 90% parity issue in 1952, and wavered again in his recent Green Bay speech (TIME, Oct. 17). With the G.O.P. committed to flexible price supports, and Stevenson uncertain, Ave Harriman decided to take the lead in favor of rigid 90% supports, plus subsidy payments for some perishables, plus programs to stimulate consumption. But the day before Harriman was to deliver his speech, Stevenson stole his thunder...
Since his Green Bay flop, Stevenson has wrestled with his scruples about 90% of parity, and won. In New York last week, he conferred with Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a leader of the farm-state Democrats, who hope to organize a "green uprising" against the G.O.P. at the polls next November. The Midwesterners made it plain that their support depended on Stevenson's acceptance of 90% of parity, and he came through...
...esthetic enfant terrible, Cocteau in times past has taken a gamin's delight in cocking a snook at the stuffy academicians. But things change, he explained, and "one wants to be oneself and yet the opposite." Like others before him, nonconformist Cocteau had succumbed to "the Green Fever," the desire to wear the gold-embroidered green uniform of the academy's Immortals...
...stalks. 14 neat rows . . . hand-planted, hand-fed, hand-watered . . . reached the skyscraping height of 16 feet." Not only is this hyperbolic flora somewhat higher than is necessary-the eye of the average elephant is only about eight feet from the ground-but also it is of such rich green pluperfection that it looks like nothing more than a cardboard imitation from a decorator's window...
...expected to welcome them with all kinds of vittles-beef, ham, turkeys, oysters, fruit, cheese and sweets-as well as gallons of the local mulekick. After the corpse had been volleyed to Kingdom Come by the customary funeral fusillade, there was bowsing and bundling sparking and frisking on the green And in addition to the hospitality, the bereaved family was expected to provide mementos, usually rings or gloves (one clergyman, in 32 years of funeral-going received 2,940 pairs of gloves...