Word: greening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presents of candy, fishhooks and pocket mirrors were rewarded by exhibitions of war dances and feats of bravery. One great problem was food and drink. They sat down to meals of diced wild turtle, and wild boar hash ("Good, too," said De Carvalho), but politely declined offerings of broiled green lizard and a drink called chicha, which native women made by chewing corn, spitting it into a bowl and giving the product time to ferment...
...meet them were Ike and Jester George, whose early-October Palm Springs hospitality the Eisenhowers were returning. As they chatted on the platform, Mamie looked at the overcast, said to Mary Allen: "If the sun doesn't shine, Ike will be mad." Ike, sporting the National's green blazer and a grey and tan checkered sports shirt, replied confidently: "Don't worry, it will burn off." Sure enough, sunshine poked through the clouds that afternoon; after some paper work at his office above the pro shop and lunch with Mamie and the Aliens, Ike had his round...
Last week Nelson was taking solace from his philosophy after his undefeated team, ranked first among the nation's small colleges, was outmanned and outplayed by Ohio's undefeated Bowling Green, 30-8. Nelson could not, and does not, expect to win them all. But he could be sure that, come Monday, the phone would be ringing at Endicott 8-8511, the soundest defensive call since...
Lecturing last week at M.I.T., Dr. Otto Struve, director of the new National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., announced a project that aims to bring earthlings out of their isolation. Starting New Year's Day or soon thereafter. Green Bank will point the observatory's 85-ft. parabolic reflector antenna at the most likely stars, listen for radio signals from planets around them...
...were about thirty Harvard men, who went down from Cambridge, and several others, graduates, who come on with ladies from New York, Boston, and elsewhere." They knew they would see a one sided contest, since earlier the same year, Yale had opened its series with Dartmouth handing the Big Green a 113-0 licking...