Word: greens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier, he began with the identical words that John F. Kennedy had used: "I am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the United States." In front of Bobby was a throng of 450, including Wife Ethel and nine of his ten children; behind him was the big, green-felt-covered table at which he had sat as counsel both for Joe McCarthy's investigations subcommittee and for the Army-McCarthy hearings that finally curbed the Wisconsin Senator's power in the dim, drear days of the middle 1950s...
...idea of the political geography of the state, it is helpful to draw a line from Chicago northward 200 miles to Green Bay, home of football's world champion Packers. Bring the line southwest 125 miles to Madison, the clean capital and university center, and then back southeast 125 miles to Chicago again...
...Green of Kentucky scored an upset victory in the 60-yard dash, defeating Craig Wallace and the favored Bennox Miller by one tenth of a second. Green's time of 6.0 tied the NCAA record set by Charlie Green in 1966. Many of America's fastest sprinters did not compete in the event. Jim Hines, Tommy Smith, and Charlie Green have already used up their three years of college eligibility. Billy Gaines has not yet entered college...
...possibility was so intriguing to the British astronomers that they began referring-only half jokingly-to their strange radio sources as "LGMs" (little green men). But two factors eventually persuaded them that the signals were not artificial: the location of three ad ditional rapidly pulsating sources after discovery of the first, and the lack of any evidence that the signals were being transmitted from a planet...
...summer before your freshman year, and at registration there was a display with military things on a clean white table cloth, with a tidy-looking officer standing nearby. Later, looking for your Math 21 section in Shannon Hall, you might have wandered along one of the pale green corridors lined with recruiting posters and framed prints of bombers and medals. And trudging up to your room one fall afternoon, you happened to meet the guy across the hall on the way down, incredibly transformed into a uniformed soldier, and you were both a little embarrassed by the formality of your...