Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deaths," Jones writes. And when Newark, his birthplace, was aflame with Negro rioting last July, Jones appeared bent on augmenting his words with action. Heading into the eye of the violence, police testified, Jones had concealed a brace of pearl-handled .32-cal. revolvers beneath the dashboard of his green camper bus and under the folds of his multihued African dashike tunic...
Last week Jimmy announced his line for next Sunday's Super Bowl between the N.F.L.'s Green Bay Packers and the A.F.L.'s Oakland Raiders. The Packers-by 14. He gave Green Bay two points each for superior quarterbacking, pass receiving, line play and linebacking, plus four points for pass defense and three for "intangibles" (meaning Coach Vinnie Lombardi), minus one for inferior place-kicking. "The Packers will play a conservative first quarter," predicted Jimmy. "But Lombardi's game plan for the second half should be something. That's when the Raiders will...
...important force in winning political office in the U.S. is green power: the money required to publicize a candidate's views and persuade the voters that he is worthy of governing by their consent. Those who give the cash exercise a vital form of political expression: they provide a basic nourishment of democracy. "Money," says California Democratic Boss Jesse Unruh, "is the mother's milk of politics." Yet Americans remain deeply suspicious of the campaign spending essential to effective elections. They fear that political contributors buy political influence. They know that even the nation's greatest political...
...girl whose eye-batting optimism thinly masks a steely and ruthless ineptitude; Rita, with the wispy, downtrodden look of a disgruntled rodent, is obviously born to be picked on. Moreover, the girls did awfully well together in the comic moments of 1964's The Girl with Green Eyes...
...compliment to the mischievous skill of Iris Murdoch that her ten previous novels-notably Under the Net, The Unicorn and The Red and the Green-have kept critics guessing about the direction in which her talent might develop. The Nice and the Good may give them a sad clue, for the answer seems to be middle-age spread...