Word: greens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keeping connections between Jordan and the West Bank open. Now trucks coming from Jordan must unload on one side, and the goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers are now being lectured on anti-terrorist tactics and given courses in first aid, and schoolchildren are instructed in how to identify mines. Cinema ushers and janitors are undergoing training to learn how to take precautions against...
Christian Party, had a green one, and to emphasize the point, its founder and presidential candidate, Rafael Caldera, became known as "the Green Giant...
...cards were slowly tallied, Rafael Caldera looked more and more like a jolly green giant. He seemed likely to topple a strong party in power, a rare event in Latin America. Caldera's lead at week's end over Action Candidate Gonzalo Barrios was razor-slim: 40,000 votes with 400,000 yet to be counted. Yet election officials predicted a narrow Caldera victory, although one in which he would have to form a co -alition government...
...assembled a cadre of 15,000 field workers, who reported weekly. Caldera appealed to poorer voters who had previously voted the white card by promising more aid to them. In the end, however, his big vote came from the middle class-and from young new voters. The Green Giant's militant youth organizers, called Green Berets, wooed voters who had turned 18 since the last election. And the party, perhaps, won some votes-as well as many a ribald observation-with a Caldera proposal for a volunteer women's corps whose members would replace housewives in their homes...
Their terrain is the fresh green land scape of ancient pastoral, replete with somber mountains, gloomy caves, anthropomorphic rivers. They sing not of ordinary men, but of lovers, amoebae, angels, village rustics, swans, emperors, unicorns. And their music is an eerie compound of British and U.S. folk traditions. Indian ragas, rock, calypso, blues, even nursery songs...