Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pathologists concluded that the victim wore no bathrobe when he was hurt. Moreover, he had been dabbed with salve before he arrived at the hospital. A neighbor remembered a Cadillac at Kierdorf's house the night he was burned; another saw a similar car and Kierdorf's green station wagon return two hours later, watched Kierdorf and a companion make four trips to the car with pillows and packages. Police found charred flesh in the station wagon and house...
...crowd massed before a huge, circular grass mound under which are buried the thousands of unidentified victims* of the first A-bomb drop exactly 13 years ago. Green wreaths were soon piled about the mound; a forest of incense sticks smoldered fragrantly. A bell tolled, signaling a minute's silence-but some women wept aloud. Then, watched by the silent crowd, Hiroshima's Mayor Tadao Watanabe released 800 doves. Ten black-robed Buddhist priests began a solemn, monotonous chant of prayers that would continue until sundown...
...Green Table. But the Prime Ministers' talks did not go easily. Four and a half hours were spent around a green-draped table in the Anahtora Palace. Another conference was held the following day. The Greeks argued for liberal self-government for Cyprus that would "unite Cypriots, not divide them," and shied away from the British concept of "partnership" (Greece, Turkey and Britain all to have a voice in governing the island), and separate assemblies for Turkish and Greek Cypriots, because this seemed too close to the partition demanded by Turkey. Besides, argued the Greeks, such a plan would...
...unique to the Upper Volta in the eight territories of French West Africa, but is in a way symbolic of the whole region's inheritance of paradox and anachronism. Next month Premier de Gaulle's new constitution will go before the people, who by choosing white or green cards will decide whether or not to cast their lot permanently with the French. Whether this will prove a false departure, with the Africans refusing to go, depends partly on how eloquent De Gaulle proves in person on a tour of West Africa in the next fortnight. France...
Novelist Powell, who was at Eton with Henry Green and George Orwell, at Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, proves that he is not out of place in such company. He is by any standard an important comic if not satiric novelist. Unfortunately infatuated with detail, Powell sometimes seems to obey a new novelist's commandment to the effect that he shall not describe a character unless he describes his neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his ass and anything that is his neighbor's. But through such means, Powell tells a story of the between...