Word: pea-green
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...planes darted overhead. One 21-gun salute after another boomed out. Within the pea-green reception room of the government building in the dusty Dominican border town of Elias Pifia, officials of Hispaniola's two little republics crowded close. Then Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and for 20 years dictator of the Dominican Republic, stepped forward and embraced coal-black Colonel Paul Magloire, newly elected President of Haiti and something of a strong man himself...
...eight frazzled negotiators sat silent for minutes at a time, pulling on cigars or cigarettes and staring morosely into space. On streamlined, shocking-pink armchairs sat the stubborn coal operators: George Love, Joseph Moody, Harvey Cartwright, Harry Moses; the stubborn miners: Thomas Kennedy, John Owens, William Mitch. On a pea-green sofa sat the grandiloquent John L. Lewis...
While the wheels of justice creaked, Lewis buried his brother. This week he was due back in his seat on the pea-green sofa...
...famed DiMaggio brothers, he comes from San Francisco's sandlots. A fortnight ago, upped to the majors from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League, Dino pulled on a Pittsburgh Pirate uniform, got into the lineup as an outfielder and began cannonading the fences as few pea-green rookies ever had before...
Ruppert's Rookie. In the early '30s, nonetheless, it didn't take long for Joe, the pea-green rookie, to outshine Vince and the other Seals. In his first full season (1933) he smashed the Pacific Coast League record by hitting safely in 61 consecutive games. He struck up a friendship with the team's first baseman, a fancy dresser and wisecracker, aped his dress and manners. From the Seals' trainer, an oldtime featherweight boxer, he soaked up fancy words. For a while, his stock reply to anyone asking him where he had been...