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Word: pinked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peter..." I said. Suddenly I was breathless, almost speechless, practically without a metaphor from desire. Hot desire. Warm, tanned, crimson desire. That she should come with me. Through the cold December Yard into the pink April of Albiani's for some coffee--April, no extensions--just in case, I borrowed twenty cents from Snyde...

Author: By M.h. Reeves, | Title: A Chimney of Nasturtiums | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

...presided behind the marble-topped, crumb-lined counter, "por favor, una fumata fur meine fraulein." "Mynheer," she would always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there in the warm pink exciting womb-like garret until the basketball jocks dropped in for pear-filled fumates, bringing with them the stench of the cages...of Harvard. Of Cambridge, that book-lined, brick-paved prison...

Author: By M.h. Reeves, | Title: A Chimney of Nasturtiums | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

With a blush that matched the pink door of her office, Lois, a pretty, 32-year-old divorcee, wrote to everyone who got the release, blamed all on her handwriting rather than on the typist who misread her scribbled "adventurous" for "adulterous." Last week, despite, and/or because of Lois' too curved pitch, the Cabana was packed to its plush eaves with adventurous VIP first-nighters. Lois could take little solace from the smash opening; the Cabana's owners had let her contract lapse. Said she: "It's a good thing I'm in business for myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Found Weekend | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...will present his future wife with a jeweled sword to protect her chastity, and the Emperor will bestow on her the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Crown, the highest decoration given a woman in Japan. Finally, the young couple will exchange love poems, written on pink paper and enclosed in boxes made of willow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Falling Curtain | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...young man's face was flushed; he wrinkled his little pink forehead as he read...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Writing Courses at Harvard | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

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