Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provokes our pity by citing the instance of bags of flour delivered by a misguided welfare agency to "a household that has no oven." Come now, biscuits can be baked anywhere there is a fire to cook with. I have made them: over an open fire wrapped around a green stick, on a flat rock under an old auto fender, on a piep an tilted in front of a fire, under an old dishpan on top of a range, on a piece of foil under a piece of corrugated-tin roof, and the product was eaten with relish...
...Force Captain Gerald O. Young, 38, was attempting to evacuate an embattled Army scout team deep inside Viet Cong country in November when his "Jolly Green Giant" rescue helicopter was raked by automatic weapons and exploded in flames. His clothes afire, Young was severely burned. Disregarding his own injuries, he gave first aid to a stunned survivor from the wreck, then waved off rescuers after spotting an enemy flak trap. Drifting in and out of shock for 17 hours, Young hobbled and crawled six miles to a clearing before signaling for help...
Then Porter flashed the kind of golf that made him a finalist at the Easterns. He chalked up three birdies on the last three holes--the last with a 40-foot putt on the 18th green--to take the match...
...Walter Gropius it was his 85th birthday. He grabbed hands and grinned his way through 300 friends and fans all wearing flourescent orange and day-glo green buttons reading "Vote Grope...
...could leave school, get himself a saw and a jitterbug (tractor) and go into the woods to cut lumber. He'd do all right." Men like Everett Williams, 35, can no longer do all right. Williams, a lean, bony man in outsized boots and a gas-station-green work shirt, lives with his wife and eight children in a rusty 8-by-23-ft. trailer on the swampy shore of Lake Winnecook, just off Interstate 95 near Unity, Me. During the summer he runs a lakeside parking lot for tourists; during the fall he digs potatoes for $1.40 an hour...