Word: greenhorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good Subject. A decade later, Prime Minister Wilson turned to Old Comrade Freeman to be Britain's High Commissioner (ambassador) in India, where embroilment in India's quarrels with Pakistan seemed unavoidable, but where, as a diplomatic greenhorn, Freeman often found it advisable to lie low. The New Statesman's immense prestige among Indian intellectuals boosted the personal popularity of its former editor, and Freeman's vivacious dark-haired third wife, Catherine, won praise for her relief work in famine-ravaged Bihar...
...based herself in Danang. "I detest Saigon," she explains. "The war seems so remote from there." In fatigues and big-brimmed slouch hat, she spends most of her time talking to the troops. "After five minutes," she says, "they get the idea I'm not a greenhorn...
...sometime prizefighter, Jimmy averaged 14.9 yds. a try as a high school halfback. Spurning baseball offers (from the New York Yankees and Milwaukee Braves), he packed off to Syracuse, majored in football and sociology and minored in track, lacrosse and basketball. As a greenhorn pro, he rushed for 942 yds., scored ten TDs and powered Cleveland to the N.F.L.'s Eastern Conference championship. The next year he set an alltime rushing record of 1,527 yds. and for five years topped all N.F.L. ground gainers...
Endurable Defeat. For Greenhorn Publisher Kiewit, it was also a wonderful way in to a new game, despite the high price of admission. The 77-year-old World-Herald is a prosperous if not an outstanding daily, and it is the only one in town. Self-styled as independent, it became Republican and conservative soon after its founder, Democratic Senator Gilbert Hitchcock, died in 1934. It is solidly established in a conservative Republican state. It gives Nebraskans what they want: a tidy-looking paper heavy on rural affairs and light on international affairs, concise and easily digested frontpage stories that...
...Great balls of betel nut," roars Ives as he looks deep into the drawing-room eyes of the new arrival, "they've sent me a totok" which is Dutch slang for greenhorn. Straightaway, Ives saves scene after scene of the picture by stealing it. Guzzling what he calls P.G. (pure gin) from a half-gallon tin, charging and trumpeting like a white war elephant in a Panama suit, Ives produces his gutsiest acting triumph since Big Daddy...