Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later in the week, the President returned to Washington briefly, for a Cabinet meeting, then motored back through the drenched green countryside to the farm at Gettysburg for three more days. This week he flew to Denver, where he will stay at his mother-in-law's home for a few days before taking to the trout streams. Meanwhile, he and Mamie had worked out a compromise on vacation plans. The First Lady will remain in the air-conditioned comfort of the Gettysburg farm this week. Next week, when he makes a quick round trip to Philadelphia...
...Telephone Laboratories, he wrote technical papers, e.g., Motion of Telephone Wires in Wind, helped to develop the coaxial cable, pioneered other telephone and TV equipment, directed the lab's vast World War II radar program. Usually he brought a fat briefcase home from work every evening to his green-shuttered home in Englewood, N.J. In 1952 he moved to New Mexico as president of Western Electric's nonprofit subsidiary, Sandia Corp. His job: building atomic bombs, designing and developing new nuclear weapons. He directed the Sandia lab's expansion from 4,500 to 5,500 workers...
...dangers of the road across Hua Hin's green rice lands is a series of one-lane bridges across irrigation canals. Sweeping down toward one of the bridges, Peurifoy saw a truck approaching from the other side. He had two choices-to speed up and try to slip through ahead of the truck, or to brake hard and hope the truck would, too. Peurifoy hit the brakes -too late. The Thunderbird smashed head-on into the truck. The ambassador and his younger son were killed almost instantly; the other boy was badly injured...
...recurrence of cancer (she underwent surgery in 1953 for a malignancy, and last June for a ruptured spinal disc), Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the world's greatest woman athlete (track and field, basketball, golf), forced a smile and said: "Well, that's the rub of the green...
...year is 1931. Actress Harris, as Sally, is a café singer of doubtful merit but nothing else about her merits any doubt. She is an amoral Junior Mistress with green fingernail polish, a nymph in sheet's clothing. She drinks Prairie Oysters (one raw egg, one dash Worcestershire sauce) for breakfast, stirs her gin with vast quantities of sentimentality. Down and out, Sally meets young Christopher Isherwood, a struggling author. He offers to share his apartment with her. In gratitude, she asks: "Shall we have a drink first, or shall we go right to bed?" But Isherwood...