Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marxist ex-Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. Moments later, the lights dimmed, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny, oven-hot colony mark its independence last week and start life anew as the nation of Guyana (pronounced guy-an-uh, meaning "land of waters...
...couldn't have happened to a friendlier hippo. Making his home in the grey-green Kurasini Creek outside Dar es Salaam, Hugo is a happy-go-lucky sort who loves nothing better than romping with dogs on the bank, marching behind a herd of cattle, and frolicking in the creek, creating miniature tidal waves. Water skiers even skim over his partly submerged back without raising as much as a snort. But Hugo has a vice: good food...
...city dwellers, small neighborhood playground-parks are supposed to be outdoor, year-round rooms. Some rooms! Almost invariably the floors are asphalt, the walls are chain-link fences, and for furniture there is a never-changing assortment of head-chopping swings and lethal slides. Green areas are inevitably posted with KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs; when the signs are not obeyed, the grass wears down to dirt, seemingly overnight. When these outdoor rooms are also forced to function as community centers for all ages, chaos results...
...serve as benches. Smooth surfaces invite childish scribbles; here they are rough to discourage them. Women are afraid of mugging; gay, indestructible plastic-globe lamps replaced the previous dim lighting. Finally, the existing plane trees were saved and new ones added so that even without grass the plaza is green...
Bowling on the Green. Other pub owners have gone all out for authenticity. Before opening the Blue Boar in Los Angeles' fashionable restaurant row on La Cienega, Bernard G. Tohl and his wife spent months researching historic pubs in London, copied the best features of 100 of them in the Boar...