Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Think as One. At Brooklyn in 1947, Rickey broke baseball's long-established color line, hiring Jackie Robinson as the major leagues' first Negro ballplayer. Rickey always insisted that his motives were practical, not social: "I don't care whether a man has green stripes and hair all over, as long as he can play the game." But he made no secret of his personal feelings about racial prejudice. "We will never think as a nation," he said, "until the entire nation is permitted to think...
...this system gives the contractor an incentive to get the job done as quickly as possible. The amount of the fees involved is a closely kept secret. Says the combine's overall boss, Morrison-Knud-sen Vice President Lyman D. Wilbur, who runs the operation from a windowless, green-painted office at No. 2 Duy-Tan Street in Saigon: "We think it's too little and the Government thinks it's too much...
Luckily, Director Guy Green (The Angry Silence, The Mark) has a knack for sustaining the sort of idea that in lesser hands might easily slip from pathos into bathos. Green's style is simple, forceful and true, and he habitually activates a performer's most astonishing inner resources. The prize of his present cast is 21-year-old film fledgling Elizabeth Hartman. Spindly and coltish as Selina, with a plain-pretty face that can erupt unexpectedly into electric beauty, she wins genuine sympathy by playing up the spunk in her role, playing against the saccharine. She is achingly...
First of all, application forms don't even look alike. The Fulbright applications, administered by the State Department, come in pastel (jungle?) green. Moreover, they come in quadruplicate. One explanation is that a panel of four experts will be reading the applications simultaneously; another is that the government figures that three of them will be lost forever in files...
...forms themselves make an income tax report look as easy to fill out as the front of a bluebook. And, like some exam proctors, whoever writes the Fulbright application kindly reminds you to look the exam over before beginning: at the top of one of the large green forms is a list of all the little sub-forms which you should include: "Reminder: A complete application consists of 4 copies of this form / 1 language report / 4 letters of reference / 1 certificate of health / all transcripts / 1 5x8 record card / 1 3x5 index card / 1 identification label / 5x8 card...