Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smugglers had changed their occupation to just plain importers, stuffed their mud-walled warehouses and piled the beachfronts with great dumps of cosmetics, transistor radios, automobile parts, nylons and U.S. cigarettes. The Pakistanis, too pleased at plugging the hole to begrudge Gwadar its last killing, ran up their green and white flag and announced that they hope to develop the place as a navy and air base, eventually to deepen its shallow port until it ranks after Karachi as the republic's second seaport...
Lawyer Edgar Eisenhower and Major General Louis W. Truman, the new commandant of Washington's Fort Lewis, met for the first time, paired off as golfing partners in Tacoma, were calling each other "Edgar" and "Louie" by the time they stepped onto the first green. When Truman was asked about his relationship with the former president, he said: "We're cousins." Ike's brother could empathize. "In that case, Louie, I suppose you've got the same kind of problem I have." Said Truman: "I think yours is worse than mine...
...brunt of the burden fell, as before, on three institutions: the Group 20 Players at Wellesley's Theatre on the Green, the Boston Summer Theatre in New England Mutual Hall, and the Tufts Arena Theatre in Medford...
...past summers there has usually been at least one member of the company who showed exceptional acting talent. This year there was none. The repertory was also somewhat below par: The Reluctant Debutante, The Mousetrap, A Clearing in the Woods, Tartuffe, The Torchbearers, and Green Grow the Lilacs...
...woman shoppers; the subterranean rumble of the subway, the distant cacophony of bells, the mingled shouts of children and clash of pin-ball machines. Saddened (perhaps by the morning's news or the "No Loitering" sign), Harold sometimes sits at the corner table by the window and counts green book bags passing by or reads Kafka or sublimates with secretaries on their way to work...