Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they continued their man hunt up to and past Fraser's house, the crofter coolly phoned the police, set a warm meal before the exhausted man. The Russians did not abandon their search until 2 in the morning, and as they pushed off from shore emptyhanded, the blue, green and white curtain of the aurora borealis shimmered above them...
...tense hush settled over the crowd that crammed Stockholm's Rasunda stadium. Out on the bright green turf of the soccer field, Brazil was dribbling to the attack. As they played their way toward the payoff rounds of the World Cup championship, the light-foot Latins had generated an awesome amount of ballyhoo. Now, in the semifinal game against France, Sweden's capital was getting its first chance to see just how good the Brazilian booters really were...
...dimensions of all the cup defenders; so does her 12-ft. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. Her sails are of Terylene (British equivalent of Dacron), and her running rigging is of the same material (with each rope dyed according to a quick-handling color code-blue, green, white, red or yellow). Below decks, even her plumbing is of synthetic Polythene, instead of copper, to save weight...
...position they give it. Vertically, the best location is arm-high for a medium-sized woman, 5 ft. 4 in. tall. Horizontally, everyone wants the last 6 ft. of the display island. Libby is even going the competition one better by color-coding its baby foods (yellow for meat, green for vegetables, coral for fruit) so that a housewife can load up in a hurry. The best special displays are big and impossible to avoid, i.e., pyramided in the center of the aisle, thus bringing traffic to a halt...
Over rutted Brazilian jungle trails last week jounced a task force of clay-spattered, green-and-yellow jeeps, carrying as incongruous a crew as ever penetrated the steaming wilderness. They were securities salesmen, hardy young men carrying briefcases, who were on their way to sell a 208 million-cruzeiro ($1.6 million) issue of stock in Willys Overland do Brasil to back-country natives who had never even heard of Wall Street...