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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the Red Button. Sirens echo over the desert, and, all alone, Graves makes the last decision. He gives the word to push the red button. Machines take over. A cam closes a switch and power is fed to cameras, test instruments and power plants. Red and green lights on the control panel trace the action from sequence to sequence. Nothing is left to human error. Even the voice that intones the final count over the loudspeakers on Yucca Flat has been recorded on a tape that cannot blow its lines from human emotion. Electric current travels a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Gives the Word | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...cool veranda, with its silvery curtains and pale green furnishings, is always a quiet and tranquil place. There is a soft, slurring sound of slippered feet from within, and an aide comes to attention: "The President." The man who steps onto the veranda is all in black-black skullcap, black Chinese gown, black felt slippers. As the President of Nationalist China stands bowing and smiling politely, the visitor notices the thin, angular face and skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Man of the Single Truth | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...green Crimson lacrosse team will encounter an equally unseasoned Tufts squad at 2 p.m. today at Tufts. The game if not spectacular, should prove interesting, since both teams have an excess of inexperienced sophomores...

Author: By Winthrop P. Smith, | Title: Lacrosse Players Will Meet Tufts Today in Away Game | 4/16/1955 | See Source »

...Mount Washington event was first held in the early thirties, but no one seems to know exactly when. The Crimson, unable to match the Big Green's ski teams in orthodox events, has more than held its own in this competition by entering more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unusual Slalom Event Will Climax Eastern Skiing Season Tomorrow | 4/15/1955 | See Source »

They combined to win the meet, 876.9 seconds to 1049.4, though the Green's Brooks Dodge finished first and Dartmouth took seven out of the first ten places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unusual Slalom Event Will Climax Eastern Skiing Season Tomorrow | 4/15/1955 | See Source »

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