Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cyclotron's worth in disease research. World War II gave the isotopes another use: the atom bomb, which the cyclotron helped make possible by producing purified uranium 235. This achievement by Lawrence, one of the six U.S. scientists appointed to weigh the bomb's possibility, was a green light for the Manhattan Project...
...every kind of case, from the unsuccessful libel suit brought by Harold Laski against the paper that accused him of advocating violent revolution to the treason trial of Klaus Fuchs and the sensational cases of the "Chalk Pit Murder" and the "Vampire," he soon became known as the "Tiger." Green young barristers would sit up all night polishing their briefs before daring to appear before him in the morning and risk hearing him say, "Let's skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich and famous lawyers, their names trailed by the initials of knighthood...
...Shneor Cheshin read each question, Amos Hacham would painfully draw himself up, holding his breath, his body rigid. Then the answer would come suddenly, in a harsh, monotonous cry. He missed scarcely a question. When it was over, Amos was hands-down winner of the first prize - a grey-green, 2,000-year-old glass vase from a tomb at Beth Shearim. Runner-up was France's Simone Dumont, Baptist teacher and a publisher of children's books, who won an ancient silver shekel. Third prize, a gold coin commemorating the tenth anniversary of Israel, went to Brazil...
...best. They argue that Japan actually damages its potential U.S. markets with cheap, often shoddy goods copycatted from U.S. or other foreign manufacturers. To U.S. consumers, the label "Made in Japan" frequently acts as a red light that warns of inferior goods. Now Japan wants to turn the light green...
Never slow to slip into a good thing, the fashion industry already counts more than a dozen firms making tights, selling all they can produce at prices ranging around $4 to $5 for adults. Most are made of stretch nylon, come in a rainbow of colors-witch black, seaweed green, wild teal and fire orange. They are often worn with shell shoes, sneakers or moccasins. Says a Detroit buyer: "Did you ever hear of warm, comfortable, fashionable glamour? Well, this...