Word: pink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicative of the new team's thinking that the Star's first gleam was timed to coincide with the news-heavy Republican convention-a consideration that would never have moved the old, pink-eyed PM. The paper now has only a puny 90,000 circulation in New York City. About 2,900 of its 125,000 copies go to Philadelphia, and Crum & Barnes want to get 50,000 readers away from Philadelphia's Inquirer and Bulletin...
Britain's bookish radical, Harold J. (for Joseph) Laski has spent most of his 54 years looking at the world through pink spectacles. Born in Manchester of Hungarian immigrant parents, he looks like a young Henry Van Dyke but often talks like poor Poll with elephantiasis...
...Manhattan's East Side one day last week, a 2,000-lb. steel ball swung from a towering caterpillar crane, smashed into the base of a brick wall. Bricks and girders came thundering to earth in a billowing cloud of pink dust. The building under demolition was one of the last five remaining on the site of U.N.'s future headquarters...
...damned public was not so easily ignored; through the years it had whittled the Lords' powers until the House had become little more than a debating society filled with crotchety, beef-pink, ultraconservative old men. Nobody but the Lords themselves paid much attention to the House of Lords-and that could sometimes lead to error, as Britain's Labor government found out last week. In fact, the error blew into a tempest in which the government, to its acute embarrassment, got a severe tossing...
...fiercely competitive marketplace, it prizes competence and rewards brilliance. It refuses to let a man take off his shirt in a park, carry a gun or smoke in the subway, but it doesn't care if he practices Buddhism, wears a pink shirt or marries and divorces six blondes...