Word: greening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boeing Vertol Company will repair and replace the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) light rail vehicles (LRV) on the Green Line, and give $40 million to the MBTA under a settlement reached last week...
...came across the low-lying fields as a drifting fog that some men saw as gray, some as yellow, some as green."Thus did Historian Ralph Allen describe the deadly mist of chlorine gas that ravaged the Canadian First Division at Ypres in 1915. Last week, as Canada celebrated Remembrance Day-the 61st anniversary of the end of World War I-fear of another kind of chlorine gas attack forced the evacuation of Mississauga...
...Green is such a calming color that many school walls are painted "educational green" to reduce the restlessness of students. Now educational green may have to yield to an even more soothing tint: "jailhouse pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the sight of the color pink changes the secretion of hormones, thus reducing aggressiveness. A jail commander in San Jose, Calif., who has tested the theory says it works-for a while. Lieut. Paul Becker found that prisoners were less hostile for the first 15 minutes in a cell that...
...theatrical Wunderkind by producing Broadway. Though financially crippled by the stock market crash in 1929, he produced or directed some of the more notable Broadway efforts of the 1930s, including Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-prizewinning Our Town, A Doll's House with Ruth Gordon and The Green Bay Tree with Laurence Olivier. Harris' memoirs, A Dance on the High Wire (Crown; $10) were published early this month...
...Green Ripper, Mac Donald...