Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried the nation with slogans of soaking the rich and championing the underdog. In 1952, they hope to do it again. But things have changed: now the villagers as well as the rich get soaked by taxes, and Maid Marian's mink coats have caused comment in the greenwood. There is a feeling that Robin has not been smart about the Communists, and Little John Acheson's foreign policy has caused fear for the future. Above all, Herbert Hoover is not Sheriff of Nottingham this year...
...first and most amusing part of the picture concerns the chemist's search for a job in a textile firm and subsequent explosive experiments in the research laboratory. After Guinness thinks he has perfected the material, the film bogs down when the boss' saccharine daughter (Joan Greenwood) falls for him and wheezes her way through a mawkish, one-sided love affair...
Just after 10 one morning last week, Mrs. Mary S. Dempsey, 38, and Mrs. Bertha E. Johnston, 53, teed off down the tree-lined seventh fairway of the Timuquana Country Club at Jacksonville. At the same time, at the nearby Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Ensign Charles L. Greenwood took off in a Corsair fighter on a training mission...
Minutes later the two women lined their second shots toward the green. Overhead the Corsair's engine coughed and failed. Greenwood rolled the fighter into a vertical bank, hoping to get back to the airfield, or at least to ditch in the St. Johns River. He realized that he could not make it, looked desperately below, headed for the only open spot...
...Pilot Greenwood escaped with minor injuries and was watching the fire when the caddy rushed up with his news. "I didn't see them," Greenwood sobbed. "I didn't see them...