Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...older brother Enoch,* left the Coventry homestead and, riding horseback through the September countryside, reached Yale College, 60 miles away, in two days. At Yale young Nathan was a bright student and something of an athlete. The mark of his record broad jump was preserved on the college green for years (later, when he was in the Army, Hale astonished soldiers in his company by kicking a ball over the treetops of the Bowery...
After much conversation on the "green line," the private telephone wire between the Prime Minister's residence and Balmoral Castle, Queen Elizabeth II last week proclaimed a "state of emergency" in Britain. Reason: the nationwide railway strike that had halted four out of five trains on the nationalized railway system. Close to 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen struck May 29 for a wage increase that would add little to their weekly pay packets but would preserve the differential between their "skilled" wage rate and that of nearly 400,000 railroad workers including porters, signalmen and gandy dancers...
...Green Hell to the east is a rain-catching jungle bigger than Texas that supports a scant 13% of the people, some of them aboriginal headshrinkers...
...desert that blooms, an air-conditioned strand in the tropics. Only 10 to 100 miles wide, the coastland stretches for 1,400 miles. Rain is virtually unknown there, but 52 well-fed rivers poke down the plunging mountains. Dammed and channeled, this water turns the valleys green with sugar cane, ripens grapes for Peru's famed pisco brandy, grows the fine, long-staple cotton that is king of the country's exports. The Humboldt Current cools the whole coast, and as a crowning convenience serves up the anchovies that feed the seabirds that provide the guano (droppings) used...
Crump to Danny Thomas. Beale Street has remained pretty much the same. The place has been cleaned up a bit (Peewee's now houses a dry-cleaning establishment, and Handy Park is green among the pool halls), but on payday nights and Saturdays, a portion of it is almost the same old dangerous, wide-open Beale Street. There is one difference, however: about a dozen years ago, under Boss Crump, all east-west streets in Memphis were designated avenues, and Beale Street became Beale Avenue...