Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavyweight champion of the world was off his feed. There were long faces at the Catskill Mountain training camp where Rocky Marciano was getting ready for his fight with Challenger Ezzard Charles. In that green corner of the "Borscht Belt," most men are measured by the size of their appetites. Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops. To make matters worse...
...bent. Even so, he was outhitting some of the best at Baltusrol. And he was playing steady, accurate golf. Not until the 18th hole of the last round was he in real trouble. Then he hooked his drive deep into the rough. Trees blocked his route to the green. But by then he had the tough course licked. He curved a long, lovely iron shot out onto another fairway, was on the apron of the green in three, chipped up neatly and dropped a tricky, downhill putt for his par five. He had finished with an impressive...
...Erwin had told the insurance commission that General American can was in serious trouble. Commissioner Smith asked three other Texas companies to take over General American and try to salvage something, but all refused. Then (as Erwin moved up to board chairman) a new insurance man (William H. Green) was brought in as president to try to straighten out General American's finances...
Advanced Step. In Dublin, after breaking a dance-course contract, Bartender Brendan Green testified that Teacher Joy Russell-Smith had augmented her instruction with hugs and squeezes and given "the impression she was getting an affection for me," was nevertheless told by the court to pay Joy ?30 ($84) damages...
...point at which Invader Carlos Castillo Armas slogged into Guatemala last week is a tangled jungle, exotically sprinkled with the elaborately carved volcanic rock columns left 1,500 years ago by the Mayas. Much of the rest of the country is also dank rainforest. Out of these green lowlands, along the Pacific Coast, rise mountain ranges, mistily blue and sullenly beautiful, that cup seven sparkling lakes and top out in 33 symmetrical volcanoes, each with a puff of cloud caught eternally around its peak. Fertile volcanic soil six feet thick covers the high plateaus and shaded valleys...