Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels were a desperate crew: 1) Walter Harold Balben, 38, the leader, a husky, trigger-tense gunman and ex-paratrooper, serving sentences of 35 to 49 years, 2) Teddy Green (né Georgacopolis), 39, a notorious, publicity-conscious escape artist and bank robber (he is a major suspect in the $1,219,000 Brinks' robbery), under sentence of 45-52 years, 3) Joseph ("Red") Flaherty, 32, a handsome, fast-talking rapist and thief (35 to 47 years), and 4) Fritz Swenson, 31, a hulking, taciturn cop-killer and a lifer...
...remaining six as additional hostages, and forced them to start digging a tunnel through the concrete floor of Cherry Hill. The escape tunnel was abandoned when water seeped into it. The desperate four demanded that Governor Christian Herter send them a getaway car. "One shot, one gas bomb," Green shouted across the prison yard, "and all five of your screws die." Massachusetts Attorney General George Fingold replied over a public-address system: "If one of those guards dies, you all die in the electric chair." As news of the big break spread, the public and the press swarmed to Charlestown...
...drum did not decline unnoticed, however, Guide Cautelli, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony asked to use the drum last month--for Verdi's Requiem. Now, the instrument will get a requiem of its own, from the Band. Nothing morbid or elaborate, you understand, but "winter green...
...strange, to fit into the rigid framework of ordered rationalizations that has long been "German mentality." Re-armament is necessary, given the threat in the East; the Nazis may never regain control. But the free world will suffer a great loss as soon as green tunics and jackboots come back to Deutschman-the embryonic power of pacifism will be smothered...
Today 5,000 young Hamburg workers can demonstrate against militarization, but where will their enthusiasm be after a year or two of green tunics and jackboots? And will they be able to demonstrate at all once an army comes into being...