Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headquarters in Tunis. They never got there. Acting on a tip, 3,000 French troops surrounded a craggy mountain where Amirouche had met local rebel leaders en route. After five hours of shooting, the French counted 71 dead. Among them was Amirouche, who was found beside a rock, his green eyes open, his chest and neck torn by grenade fragments...
...fully developed female characters are nymphomaniacs allows for frequent relaxations from the business of capturing the statehouse. The only problem with all this is that it imposes the necessity of building up to greater and greater exploits and more improbable melodrama. With the first seduction on the green-felted conference table of the county judge, the difficulty arises of where to go next...
...order to weasel out of his debts, the father (performed with virtuosity by Daniel Garrison, complete with belches and burps) enrolls after hours at a fly-by-night school in Boston, in the hope of mastering legal quibbles and learning how to persuade a jury that red is really green. He flunks out, though, and forces his son (cleanly played by Marsh McCall) to matriculate in his stead. The son assimilates his course in Unethical Practices so well that he commits assault and battery upon his father without fear of reprisal. But when the son threatens to beat...
Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. A lively swearing of the green by Ireland's latest IRAte young...
...even carries his own props. "This fellow here," he says, suddenly snatching a green china dinosaur from his briefcase, "is called a triceratops. He had the biggest radiator ornament in prehistoric history. It kept getting bigger and bigger until finally he could no longer hold up his head. He had a wheelbase of nearly 30 feet. The dinosaur perished because...