Word: lush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LAST Saturday, it was Florida, with its un-fall-like weather, its grapefruit trees, its trailers fancied up with everything from built-on rooms and porches to landscaped lawns. Sunday, it was Cleveland, as coolly respectable as Florida, and unexpectedly flamboyant; Monday, the lush, velvety valleys, red barns and wind-stroked corn fields of Wisconsin; Tuesday, the tall towers of Minneapolis, rising sharply from the prairie and gleaming in the warm sun; old, mellow St. Paul with its distinguished piles of Victorian brick and stone on Summit Avenue, where Scott Fitzgerald lived...
...committed to a peaceful solution of this [Suez] problem." When the Cairo negotiators met a fourth time, they debated 105 minutes before breaking up in futility. Menzies was reportedly refusing to talk about any Nasser counterproposals. Afterwards Nasser entertained the committee at a banquet in the lush tropical gardens of one of the ex-royal family's palaces. To the dismay of burly Bob Menzies, Australia's leading wine connoisseur, Moslem Nasser served only soft drinks with the dinner. (Soon he was not to care; like so many visitors to Egypt, Menzies came down with a case...
Pears & Hazelnuts. For a while Gulek tried to counter the police with Gandhian tactics-simple handshaking tours. For the last 100 miles of his trip he abandoned ship and moved by car along the lush southeastern shore of the Black Sea, where the corn grows eight feet tall and string beans climb way up over a man's head. In this country, where peasants came out to the road to present him with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace...
...outdoor setting added much to the atmosphere of the play. William D. Roberts has designed an awesome set of towering (fifteen feet) platforms and Gothic arches. The stage is sombre, but only to act as background for the lush costumes and lighting. Brilliant greens highlight Satan--strange amber tones play over the Witches' revels where nudes and hags mingle in what might have been better dances. Unfortunately they suffered from lack of definitive choreography and professional performance. Satan would not tolerate such slip-shod work on the part of his disciples...
...Northwesterners doubt that the investment will pay rich dividends. Grand Coulee irrigation water has already turned hundreds of square miles of sagebrush desert into lush cropland, boomed Grant County population 67% (to 40,000) in six years. The once-barren hills have sprouted new farming towns and fertilizer plants, railroad yards and huge sugar-beet refineries. When the $200 million Wanapum Dam follows Priest Rapids into production, Grant County citizens will at last have the cheap, abundant power to balance their boom with industry...