Word: pink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four days dusty, backward Asuncion looked like the set for a high-budget Warner Brothers' production. Under the palms, military attaches in fancy uniforms and foreign ambassadors wearing bright-hued sashes danced Paraguayan polkas with the dark-eyed daughters of Asuncion society. Workers in pink shirts and red bandannas paraded under the unseasonably hot winter sun. The troops showed off their best uniforms and equipment, while the new President, standing in an open car, dashed about the capital with a bodyguard...
Singer Jane Fromain was finally back on her feet, and looking in the 'pink (see cut). She sang without crutches-in a New Jersey nightclub-for the first time since the plane she rode crashed at Lisbon, Portugal, back...
...Your article, "The Pink Facade" [TIME, Aug. 2], on the Communist puppet show in Philadelphia should be required reading for every American. TIME presented the real news of the Progressive Party's convention in telling how naive a group of sincere Americans can be in the face of Communist management...
Instead, the Western nations let Vishinsky steal the show. They heard him make the fantastic charge that they were trying to treat the Danubian states "as a cook treats potatoes." That was too much for icy, pink Sir Charles Peake, Britain's delegate. Stung, but not exactly hopping, Sir Charles announced that he would reply to Vishinsky the next day. When Sir Charles was ready to speak, Vishinsky cracked that he was happy to note that the British representative "after 72 hours had gathered enough strength to answer...
Rich materials and such new shades as "cigar brown," "seaweed rose," "shrimp pink" and "soft sulphur yellow" helped to create a tizzy of fashionmakers' incoherence. Wrote the N.E.A.'s Rosette Hargrove of one collection (by Carven): "Egyptian inspiration stressing spindled, high-bosomed princess line enhanced by encrusted boleros with contrasting yokes of mummy wrappings and circular embroideries...