Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom." Khanh was shuttling back and forth from his resort-headquarters at Cap St. Jacques, where he huddled secretly with the Young Turk officers who, with Khanh, had outraged Taylor by toppling the civilian High National Council. At other times Khanh was seen speeding through Saigon in his green Mercedes, or bustling about his well-guarded villa inside Vietnamese naval headquarters...
...McCutchan is an odd coach. A balding, soft-spoken math teacher, he has a notion that the game ought to be played for fun. He wears flaming red socks ("for luck"), dresses the Purple Aces in bright orange road uniforms and warmup robes of yellow, red and green because "I like some color, and purple is hard to see." McCutchan limits his own recruiting to the environs of Evansville (eleven players are Indianians), refuses to play against "coaches who don't enjoy the game...
...still morning on the afternoon Nyerere landed. Vice President Karume is still known as President on Zanzibar. Island officials obstinately control their own customs and immigration affairs, maintain and jealously censor an independent cable and wireless network, and conduct external trade and finances through their own ministries. The tough, green-uniformed troopers of the People's Liberation Army-composed mostly of Communist-leaning hoodlums who had led the anti-Arab coup-still stalk the streets armed with Russian burp guns. They are backed by the 30-man Revolutionary council, a gang of malcontents led by Peking...
East German Puppet Boss Walter Ulbricht had devised a new welcome for the Westerners. At green money-changing kiosks erected for the occasion, each visiting Berliner was dunned 75? in West German marks as the price of admission to his domain. With some 1,000,000 visitors expected during the two weeks the Wall will be open, Ulbricht stands to net $750,000 in much-needed hard currency...
...cultivated barley, peas and primitive kinds of wheat. During the earlier centuries, they had no pottery but made graceful vessels of wood. The women carried makeup kits with polished obsidian mirrors, little baskets of rouge mixed with fat, and delicate bone sticks with thin tips still covered with green paint resembling the implements with which modern women apply mascara...