Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back for everyone, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson returned from a 16-day tour of Europe last week to defend his conduct of office. He was the storm center of a mounting uproar from the farmlands that worried the Republicans and encouraged the Democrats to predict a "green uprising" in their favor in next year's elections. Minnesota's Democratic Governor Orville Freeman struck his party's keynote when he said that the Eisenhower Administration considered farming to be a stepchild of little importance in an otherwise prosperous economy...
...Revlon could thank most last week, admiration descended from all directions. Headlined Paris Presse: PRESIDENT LEBRUN'S GREEN PEAS WON $64,000 FOR CAPTAIN RICHARD. British newspapers lovingly frontpaged the event. The U.S. Hearst chain extracted eight articles from McCutchen on his life and times (BE "CAPTAIN COOK'S" GUEST, shouted the headlines). State fairs beseeched his appearance. Publishers begged him to write cookbooks. In a New York delicatessen, the proprietor refused to let him leave without a 3-ft. gift roll of salami. But from Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Shepherd Jr. came the most important response...
...some bigheaded, bandy-legged, ivy-green men from Mars with a secret weapon and a gripe against Marxists took over Earth, wiped out all the Communists and went home, how would things be? Much better, no doubt. But last week's news brought wholesome reminders that even if Communism were erased, old Earth would still have plenty of troubles...
...from the green grass of Yankee Stadium, a tourist in Rome succumbed to an old Yankee habit: psychoanalyzing the Brooklyn Dodgers. Said Joseph Paul Di-Maggio about a possible Dodger-Yankee World Series: "It has gotten so bad with them in Brooklyn that they can't even say the word 'Yankees.' It's always 'those blankety-blank lucky Yankees'-to put it politely. I guess the only thing that can cure them is a brainwashing...
Footsteps in the Fog (Columbia) whips up the classic recipe for a melodramatic potboiler: mix two engaging scoundrels (Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons) with a brace of murders, add a pinch of blackmail, a generous helping of blue London fog, some bilious green Edwardian interiors, the clop-clop of hansom cabs, and allow to simmer for 90 minutes over a gaslight flame...