Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England woods the fiddlehead ferns were unfolding, and blankets of wisteria spread over the houses. Outside Santa Fe, ribbons of green laced the brown adobe on the flatlands, and here and there the full-flowering lilacs formed purple buttons. On riverbanks of the Northwest, wild rhododendrons, spiraling up to 30 feet, were spreading red and pink and white blooms two hands wide. Spring was full-blown in the U.S., and the nation's prevailing mood seemed to be as bright as its blossoms...
...long disfigured Harvard Yard. Many of us were worried when we saw a gang of workmen spreading hot asphalt over what had been a lawn at the entrance to Seever Hall, but our anxieties have been set at rest now that the metalled surface has been painted green. If this green does not exactly blend into the surrounding landscape the fault must lie with the landscape, and I hope Buildings and Grounds will have the courage to continue this treatment throughout the Yard, in the interests of, consistency...
Communist President Ho Chi Minh took over Haiphong with 10,000 men selected from the elite regiments of Dien-bienphu; frozen-faced, in green uniforms and the inevitable sneakers, they carried identical bouquets of flowers. But when Haiphong was secure and with it the whole of North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million), Ho's orthodox Communist purge got under...
...strings; Bethlehem). A skillful jazzman, whose muted flights were jewels of chamber jazz in the late '305, now playing wide-open. Backed by Sy Oliver's strings, Shavers' brazen tones soar, tumble and melt as they extract the moods of tunes by Harold Arlen and Johnny Green...
Heartbreak Ridge. The infantryman's ordeal in Korea, as experienced by a green French lieutenant and sharply recorded by Director Jacques Dupont (TIME...