Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take our mandarin oranges. I once stayed in a Soviet hotel with a Japanese figure skater. He wanted to know what kind of fruit was on sale that was small, sour and green and got scooped up into bags. I told him they were mandarin oranges. "They can't be," he said. "I know what a mandarin orange is." What could I say? Maybe they get specially harvested as buds just for our people, so we'll walk around with sour faces...
...There were lots of guys walking around wearing ridiculous green lycra bike pants," Jennifer Dodge said. "It was hysterical...
...wins will help Harvard's chances this weekend when it travels to Princeton to play in the Ivy League Tournament. The Elis and the Big Green are two of the league's top four seeds...
...line on the ice. Most coaches would not trust their last line in a situation like that. But early in his coaching career, Cleary made a point of skating all four lines--even at crucial points in the game. So with the game on the line, the Crimson's green line...
...recent morning, Willey and a partner, E.D.F. lawyer Tom Graff, headed from their Oakland office down Highway 5 to dicker with irrigation districts on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. An odd pair: Willey, somewhere over 6 ft. 5 in. in his cowboy boots, lean, green-eyed and with an easy grin; Graff, short and with a squared-off boxer's nose, but unpugnacious. As environmentalists go, they speak softly and strangely: California water distribution suffers under misguided socialist precepts, they argue. What it needs is fewer bureaucrats and more capitalists. Turn water into a commodity people...