Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lynn Riggs. 54. Broadway folk playwright (Green Grow the Lilacs, 1931, the source of Rodgers & Hammerstein's fabulously successful Oklahoma!) after a brief illness; in Manhattan...
...Beck told the G.O.P. and Democratic State Central Committees to name candidates for the Aug. 10 primary within three days. At week's end the committees named their men. For the Republicans: able, first-term Congressman Roman Hruska, 49, of Omaha. For the Democrats: James F. Green, 37, an Omaha lawyer known chiefly as a twice unsuccessful candidate for national commander of the American Legion...
...started talks at 3 p.m. But twelve hours later, there was only a bleak deadlock. The issue: Which of them should take top power and responsibility? Sleepless Jack Peurifoy learned in alarm of the impasse and caught a plane to San Salvador. Looking like a dashing sportsman in a green Tyrolean hat and checked jacket, he talked separately with Monzón and Castillo Armas (whom he met there for the first time), then brought them together. He hammered home the idea that the good of Guatemala demanded a compromise. The proud colonels began to give ground...
...dark glasses was Jaroslav Drobny, the Czech exile who had already spent the better part of ten Wimbledon tournaments on his feet, but had never walked off the green center court with the trophy that he, and all tennis amateurs, aspire to: the Wimbledon Challenge...
They look out at the warm, green waves of the deep, shrimpy Gulf and say to the oil: "We know you're down there. Some day we're coming...