Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hors d'Oeuvres: caviar, ham, roast beef, salted salmon, carp, sheep cheese, salami, potato salad, stuffed eggs, and fresh tomatoes with chopped green onion tops...
...North Sea flowed around Kublai's Green Mount (also called the Hill of Ten Thousand Years), converted it into an island serenely adorned by the White Pagoda, the Pavilion of Perpetual Southern Melodies, the Tower of Felicitous Skies, Wisdom's Fragrant Terrace...
...real magic. Mozart's mystical fantasy of free masonry unfolded among three Egyptian temple arches of flesh-pink, violet, cerulean blue, turquoise, cobalt and yellow. The middle arch was framed by black sketches of symbolic heads, and its opening revealed projected landscapes. Papageno was dressed in a brilliant green feather coat, brick-red vest and yellow trousers, while the chorus of priests appeared in explosive shades of orange...
Reach for the Sky. As at both Annapolis and West Point, the Air Force Academy already has its stock exchanges for the moment when a cadet is braced by an upperclassman. On returning to barracks, the cadet says: "New Cadet Blank returning to base, three-green"-a reference to the three green lights on the instrument panel showing that the landing gear is down and locked. If an air training officer wants a cadet to do something on the double, he says: "One hundred percent with afterburner." For no reason at all, he may command a cadet: "Report your position...
Amicus Humani Generis. When a little Taurum turns the White House putting green into a creeping shoulder-high jungle, Congressman Fairweather has some doubts about John Henry's sanity, but none about his product. At the city's main psychiatric clinic, the "chief head-candler" assures the congressman that John Henry's Rorschach test is "interesting, but not alarming." The congressman then points out to the young scientist that there are millions to be made out of his pay dirt. But John Henry is interested in no quid pro quo, prefers to be "an amicus humani generis...