Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contest started quickly with the Big Green jumping away to a 12-4 advantage at the 5-minute mark. The varsity retaliated, however, and knotted the count at 14-all when Bob Bowditch hit one of his patented left hand jump shots four minutes later...
...Rudy LaRusso, the Indians have posted a 7-4 record thus far, including impressive wins over Brigham Young and Canisius, and losses to Vanderbilt (which knocked off Kentucky), Butler, Bradley, and Holy Cross. In League play, the Green has squeaked past Yale, 52 to 51, and has soundly defeated Columbia and Cornell...
...Doctor's Dilemma (Comet; M-G-M). The Fabian intellect and the Wagnerian soul were the lion and the unicorn of Bernard Shaw's personal mythology and creative life. In his later writings these opposites lie down together peacefully in the green pastures of Creative Evolution, but in The Doctor's Dilemma (1906) the two tendencies almost tear each other, and the play, apart. With all his romantic soul, Shaw longed to write a tragedy of the one and the many, of the creator-criminal murdered by the power of positive thinking and collective morality. With...
Amid the rolling hills of Vallecitos, Calif., the domed buildings stood bizarre and unexpected, like monstrous silver derbies tossed away by a giant. Even more bizarre was the scene inside. Over two pools of dark green water hovered a pair of white-clad men, intently fishing into the depths with a long grappling pole. Directed by a loudspeaker, they dipped again and again, snaring silver-colored bars of uranium 235 from the bottom of one pool and guiding them gently into the other. As they did, a gauge of amber-colored numbers shot up and up. Near by, another figure...
...seem like a "large church." But Eddie only knows the stale cigar and cigarette smoke, the massiveness of mahogany tables squatting impersonally, the lone hustler practicing shots. Hours may pass in a close game when the only life the hustler sees consists of shaded light on the brushed green cloth, the movement of balls elegantly cued, the sensuous dropping of globes into pockets. When it is over, win or lose, he wanders out into the streets that are usually slummy and unfriendly and back to a hotel room whose look and cost closely reflect his recent successes or failures...