Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grass, and dazzling turquoise gadis (bolsters) were placed on the rugs. Reclining on the rugs and gadis, His Excellency Syed Amjad Ali, the Pakistani ambassador, sat in cross-legged splendor. He was dressed in gaudy sport clothes and a dark ten-gallon hat. A red and green silk beach umbrella shaded the ambassador from the direct touch of the cruel sun, and a swarm of sari-clad women from his household kept him and his guests plentifully supplied with cooling drinks...
...dusk and raining. Storekeeper Pinney watched Krolik enter. A hefty six-footer, wearing a red-and-green golfer's cap, black T shirt and soft yellow moccasins, Krolik asked for a bottle of whisky -then, as Pinney turned, pulled out his new pistol and ordered: "Give me all the green money." Pinney put his money on the counter. Krolik reached, lowering his pistol slightly. In a flash, ex-Cop Pinney whipped out one of his own revolvers, shot four times. As Krolik fell to the floor without firing back. Pinney observed him "wriggling like he was going...
...barren Judean foothills that rise above the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, a goat in search of greener pasture precipitated the most significant religious discovery in recent history. As a Bedouin shepherd pursued the animal, he stumbled on a hidden cave. For Biblical scholars, the cave contained green pastures indeed: the first of the now famous Dead Sea Scrolls...
...occasion Sinatra, who was trained as a flyweight by his fighter father, has also gone in for slapping people around. He throws pretty frequent crying fits and temper tantrums too, and has even been seen to weep in his secretary's lap. His prodigality with the big green is legend from Hoboken to Hollywood. "Perhaps," says one friend, "Frank is the wildest spender of modern times. He throws it around like a drunken admiral." A member of his family reports that he usually carries nothing smaller than $100 bills and "peels them off like toilet paper...
Being a well-fixed boy in a poor neighborhood had its disadvantages, but Frankie made the least of them. When the green-eyed little monsters mobbed him, Frankie fought foot and fang, and won their respect. Moreover, those he could not beat he could buy. In short, Frankie soon found himself with a gang at his back, and a gang in Hoboken had to be kept busy...