Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubled in size. The landscaping was finished only 24 hours before Western Germany's new government convened last week. On the final night, 1,500 workers mopped the floors, polished the windows, hung the draperies, arranged the potted plants. At dawn a tired old charwoman sank into a green leather chair and groaned: "All I can say is, something good had better come out of all this." The new democratic government was Germany's chance to work her passage back...
...Marshal's austere appearance in pictures may have deceived even sharp-eyed Tailor &Cutter. "His well-known tunic," wrote Wendell Willkie in One World, "is of finely woven material, and is apt to be a soft green or a delicate pink; his trousers a light tannish yellow or blue...
...great day had come at last. At 5:25 one gloomy morning last week, a tall, husky girl in an old green bathing suit strode down to the beach at Cap Gris Nez, France. Well displayed across her ample bosom were the words "Black Magic." She dunked a toe in the icy waters, announced that she was not really scared, and struck out in the general direction of Dover, England. For fame, for fortune, and for Scripps-Howard and United Artists, grease-coated, 17-year-old Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass. was trying to swim the English Channel...
...green-carpeted office in the East Block last week, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent pondered the extremes that faced him and his country. The fine legal mind, famed in Canadian courts for its ability to arrive at sense-making compromises, was at work trying to find middle way. St. Laurent was confident that it could be found. "We have been up against tough situations before," he said. "The Western World has always managed somehow...
...twice won the Trans-Mississippi crown), 25-year-old Finalist Coe was the favorite as he squared off on the first tee. Both amateurs promptly began playing like amateurs. Coe, normally as cool as a barrel of ice water and deadly with a putter, three-putted the first green. Then he settled down and it was King's turn to blow...