Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millions of them, spawned in areas of Algeria where the civil war had slackened normal spray control. They descended on scores of tiny oases in Tunisia's date-and-olive country. With horrified fascination Tunisians watched them swarm over the ground, in a matter of hours eat every green thing in sight, and then disappear into the hearts of the date palms, thereby dooming the trees...
...money, coming in faster than the nation can find a way to spend it, is buying a better life for every one of the 60,000 men, women and children in the Sultanate. "You rub your eyes and begin to count the miracles that are taking place in this Green Desert of Borneo," cabled TIME'S Hong Kong Correspondent Paul Hurmuses after a visit to Brunei last week, "and you find there is no end to them...
Bowling down to Windsor Castle with Queen Elizabeth a few hours after he had exhorted Britain's Automobile Association that "anything is worth trying to reduce Britain's horrible casualty figure," Prince Philip tried to stop his elegant green Lagonda convertible when a Morris slowed for a turn, failed to brake fast enough, clonked into the tiny car. The Morris pilot hopped out in a huff, "thinking 'Some stupid clod's hit me,' " melted immediately when Philip cheerfully took the blame. Damage to Queen, Prince and commoner: none. To Philip's prestige as president...
Moon Talk. But while their editors play up TV, many publishers still deeply resent the golden rain of advertising that makes TV pastures green. The rivalry is most evident in areas where TV is giving monopoly newspapers their first run for advertisers' money. The biggest open battle between newspapers and TV raged last week in New Mexico, where the state's three biggest dailies and two biggest TV stations were trading tirades over the papers' longtime policy of charging broadcasters advertising space rates for running program listings. When Albuquerque radio and TV stations KOB and KGGM said...
...represented a sleekly modern office-apartment equipped with a pushbutton intercom system and a radio. The booted, black-uniformed officer listened for a' while to a local radio singer, questioned a corduroy-jacketed "freedom fighter," and chased a redhead in green strapless evening gown about his desk. 'What was going on? Answer: A modern-dress production of Puccini's Tosca...