Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed to cooperate and to give the President the benefit of their recommendations by next December. By February, after a series of regional conferences, President Eisenhower expects to have his long-range program plotted out and ready to move ahead at top speed as soon as Congress flashes a green light...
...Frederiksen believes that warmth and cold in the Arctic come in cycles of about 1,800 years. Before the last peak of cold, from which the Arctic is just emerging, Greenland was really green, and the sea between Greenland and Iceland was sufficiently free of ice to permit the tiny ships of the Vikings to sail without disaster. Dr. Frederiksen predicts that this condition will return, and that great areas of Siberia, Canada and Alaska, now almost uninhabitable, will be opened to agriculture. Population will move north, and the world's balance of power may be affected...
...Giant fans. Unprotestingly, they submit to the nerve-jangling rites of entrance: the steaming subway ride or the stuffy taxi crawling across Harlem, the foul-tempered guards who herd them through turnstiles at the gate. Inside, the vast stands sprawl in the sun, the carefully tended ball field is green and trim, ready for the game...
...Green Parrot. In A Simple Heart, Flaubert takes a plain-as-rain spinster housemaid and erodes her placid life with tragedies. From dawn to dusk, Felicité slaves for the Aubain family, all of whom take her toil for granted. She loves her young nephew like a son, but he dies at sea. Desolate, she clings to the delicate Aubain daughter only to see the girl die of TB. Felicité swaddles her grief in piety and finds a pet in a green parrot. After a few years the parrot dies too, and Felicité has it stuffed. Time robs...
Downcast, he takes consolation in politics under the tutelage of a wonderful figure of fun, an editorial bull-roarer called Camacho, from whose lips "anathemas were springing . . . as from the lips of Isaiah; the triumphal palms were turning green in his hands. Every gesture seemed a principle. When he opened his arms, striking the air, it was as though an entire program were unfolding." Rubião, the gullible incomepoop, throws good money after bad journalism, and begins to dream of a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...