Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what is wrong with . . . the organization of a committee against Cornmunism? The inconsistency of condemning Stalin's actions and yet sympathizing with his friends and agents in this country . . . makes one wonder if there isn't a little pink mixed in with your printer's ink...
...Blood, Pink Ink...
Withal the mayor had a flair for endearing himself to the voters. He signed all his letters and documents in green ink in inch-high letters, conscientiously dispatched special greetings on green-or canary-colored stationery to new mothers, new brides and new residents, mailed thousands of "wish you were here" postcards to Dearbornites from his vacations (although his mother complained recently that Orville hadn't written to her in more than a year). The voters liked the show well enough to give Orville five terms- something they had never done for any previous mayor...
...last week at the Berkshire Festival had a special treat: Eleanor Roosevelt made her musical debut as the narrator in Prokofiev's symphonic fable, Peter and the Wolf. The First Lady emeritus, who had arrived to rehearse only that morning, read her score (solo passages underlined in black ink, lines with orchestral accompaniment in red) with a mellow distinctness, never missed a cue. The audience called her back for five rousing curtain calls. Said Conductor Serge Koussevitzky ecstatically: "Now the First Lady of the world is not only a grandmother to her own grandchildren, but, through her participation...
...Unanimously approved a bill easing the President's pen & ink routine (300 signatures a day), permitting his aides to read and sign for him such housekeeping details as letters, orders and directives to departments...