Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suddenly the plane came alive: her six turbojets throbbed, then hummed,then split the air with a banshee scream. In their tandem seats under a Plexiglas canopy, Major Horace ("Beau") Traylor Jr., the aircraft commander, and Major Martin Speiser, the pilot, made ready to taxi to the runway. Their green coveralls were soaked through with sweat; it was more than 140° in their compartment. They faced a nerve-shredding test of their skill and endurance: the City of Merced was about to take off in her final flight in the U.S. Strategic Air Command's annual bombing...
...long salient of indefensible dunes, it remains a symbol of Arab defiance against unconfessed defeat. Behind the 20-inch-wide furrow that passes for its frontier, 219,000 Arab refugees squat in sandy squalor, existing only on U.N. charity and staring balefully across the border at the slopes now green with Israeli corn...
...runs got tougher, they began to take their toll. When one of his volunteers showed signs of shock after a 35-g deceleration, Stapp lost no time repeating the run himself. His vision blurred to a smoky green fog, and he wound up with a body full of bruises where he had slammed against his harness. His right hand slipped from its grip on the seat's arm rest and his wrist broke as it hit against the hand grip. But he had discovered what he set out to find: the previous rider had failed to keep his head...
...Harvard psychologists, is essentially one of the stereotypes of czarist days: the ambitious but passive dreamer. The Soviet upper class is acquiring the same sheltered, privileged life as the czarist nobility. If present trends continue, the ranks of the Red aristocracy will be filled with more and more green-tinged Golden Youths like Oleg...
...from a first-place tie to No. 3, one game out. The Boston Red Sox kept coming, powered by Homer-hitters Grady Hatton, Ted Williams, and Eddie Joost; they knocked off the hapless Athletics, 14-2, wound up only 3½ games out of first place. CJ In Philadelphia, green-eyed Barbara Breit, 17, defeated Mexico City's Maria Reyes, 6-2, 6-1, to win the U.S. girls' grass-court tennis championship for the second straight year, then joined Diane Wooton, to take the doubles...