Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large central building was ringed by bright colors. It looked like a parking lot filled with cars. When the plane dipped lower, the cars turned out to be bodies. Scores and scores of bodies ?hundreds of bodies?wearing red dresses, blue T shirts, green blouses, pink slacks, children's polka-dotted jumpers...
...Nielsen Co. ranked the election coverage in the bottom third of all prime-time shows aired during that week. In New York City, for example, at least 65% of the audience preferred nonelection shows, with the heaviest share going to the rerun of Peter Sellers' 1964 movie The Pink Panther...
...year ago that 12,000 feminist observers and 2,000 delegates concluded the National Women's Conference in Houston. Spirits and hopes were as high then as the pink and yellow balloons that sported the legend "We are everywhere," sent aloft by the lesbian caucus...
Baldrige, a superbly energetic amalgam of feminist and Tasteful Lady, left a few sections of the original Amy nearly intact?the formal wedding, heraldic devices, parliamentary procedure, how to visit a naval vessel and how to go fox hunting. (Do not show up in black derby with a pink coat. Never done!) But the farther Baldrige explored in the territory of manners, the more she revised and enlarged the Vanderbilt canon. She kicked the stuffiness out of it and inserted a clear-eyed, considerate feminism...
...Island, is a masterpiece of terse narrative and clinical observation. Without wasting a diphthong, Roueche captures the look and feeling of the gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind. It was very tender and almost tasteless. The only flavor was a very faint sweetness...