Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute Princess Margaret got back from her tour, she made a beeline for one of the "green line" phones (which are equipped with "scramblers" to prevent interception) and called Group Captain Peter Townsend R.A.F. at the British embassy in Brussels. The romance still bloomed; she still wanted to marry...
...this point, an alert police superintendent grappled with the stranger, a wiry man in a bright green shirt and red shorts. The superintendent wrenched a rusty, four-inch clasp knife out of his hand, threw him to the ground and whisked him off to the police station before the angry crowd could get at him. Nehru, cool as ice, barely stopped smiling at the crowd and pressing his palms together in the traditional Hindu greeting. "You don't want to take risks?" he told his agitated followers. "Then don't take them." Nehru thought that the would...
...automobiles designed by Soviet factories for public sale. (A fifth, the ZIS, the big, black limousine modeled after the Packard of 15 years ago, is made to order only for high government use.) It is the first to be offered in a variety of shiny colors (dark blue, pastel green, beige light blue), instead of the usual flat drabs of other Soviet cars, like the Pobeda (built along the lines of an undersized 1939 Ford) and the ZIM (which looks like an elderly Buick). The Volga is also the first to offer such Western frivolities as the automatic shift...
...Long Ball. There is little danger of Mike's collapsing. He has the crowd-proof calm of a winner. Once he is on the tee, his green eyes settle into a squint, his rugged shoulders swivel through a couple of practice swings; then he steps up to belt the ball a country mile. Lately he has been trying so hard to substitute control for power that his drives sometimes roll out to a mere 300 yards. A perfectionist with his irons, Mike is one of those rare types, a long-ball hitter who can also handle approaches and putts...
VENTURE INTO DARKNESS (367 pp.)-Alice Tisdale Hobart-Lonqmans Green...