Word: greenish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the house's features are the unique Gold Room adjacent to the dining hall, large sculptures, a pipe organ and a swimming pool (used primarily for parties). Also, a large golden gong and a pair of greenish Foo dogs adorn the dining hall. The house also boasts two hand-letter printing presses...
Despite the home-field disadvantage and despite the relative strength of the Quakers, though, when Harvard dons its Crimson helmets and its greenish-gold pants this afternoon, it can take solace in one simple fact: win or lose, there's always the Yale game...
...chat about your favorite post-colonialist scholar or huddle in a corner with some slim, tragic French novel. But the coffee and desserts, though expensive, are tasty enough to attract less intense visitors. Especially good is the "Arabian toast" (sticky triangles of pita bread, and the house specialty, a greenish coffee served with lots of whipped cream...
...Saddam City have taken to foraging alongside dogs and sheep, searching for food in the mounting piles of garbage that line every street. There has been no refuse pickup in the neighborhood in five months. Nor is there clean water. Sewage has backed up into the streets in greenish, foul-smelling pools...
...when a mine-clearing reconnaissance unit ventured into As Salman's hilltop fort that France suffered its only two deaths in the war. A paratrooper stooped to pick up a greenish, tangerine-shape object, and it exploded in his face, killing him and a soldier standing nearby. Would-be rescuers tripped a similar explosive device, wounding 25. The munitions turned out to be antipersonnel cluster bombs that had been dropped earlier by U.S. aircraft. But after the smoke had cleared and an unchallenged French line lay strung across a third of Iraq's width, Paris felt it had grounds...