Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climate where a bareheaded man with his feet in the shade can get sunstroke and frostbite simultaneously. They bounced across torrents on inflated goatskin rafts, threaded their way through gorges whose walls rose sheer to pinnacles two miles above them. In May they left behind the last green spikes of living vegetation, and entered into a land where no birds sing. In their faces was a biting wind, boring relentlessly down from Baltoro glacier...
When the price of coffee climbed alarmingly last January, President Eisenhower ordered the Federal Trade Commission to find out why. Last week, after seven months of searching (while coffee continued to go up), FTC gave its answer: Said FTC: "The increase in green coffee prices . . . from 58? to 96½? between December 1953 and April 1954, and the corresponding increase in average retail . . . prices from 91? to $1.18 . . . cannot be explained in terms of the competitive laws of supply and demand." In a report to Congress, FTC listed what it thought were the real reasons...
...Brazilian government was about to boost the support prices from 1,200 to 1,500 cruzeiros ($63.76 to $78.17) a bag, They moved into the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange one day before, came close to cornering the futures market, and in little more than a month sent green coffee prices from...
...land is a windswept steppe, almost a desert. "The most magnificent monotony in the whole world," says Sacheverell Sitwell. It has been said of Spain that it seems more a part of Africa than of Europe. This is even more true of the Castilian plateau than of the green and garrulous south...
...landscape of hidden villages, suddenly come upon, like crocks of earthenware in the soil, crumbling in the summer heat, sodden in the torrential rains of winter; it is a place of sunsets in the haze of dust and of short twilights when the sky at the last moment goes green over the sharp, violet mountains, which seem to have been cut out by a knife . . . The landscape of Castile, Unamuno said, is for monotheism, not pantheism. God is a precise thing like a stone, the Christ is a real man bleeding, and the blood of His wounds stains the mother...