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Word: pinked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somebody-too" tone she relates how Lord Beaverbrook gave her a dry kiss on the forehead and tried to persuade her to accompany him on a trip up the Nile; how she talked her way into Neville Chamberlain's suite in Munich (the toilet paper was pink, the wallpaper was blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary's Museship | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...guess-what-color motorcycle for the new season's first two shows of ABC'S hit series Happy Days. Instantly smitten by the shapely Pinky, the self-proclaimed "world's greatest female biker," the Fonz actually bussed her in the bike shop and carried her pink scarf close to his leather-jacketed heart. For a few tense moments marriage loomed. Were viewers turned off by this soft side of their superstud hero? No way. The Nielsen ratings showed that Happy Days captured 53% of the total television audience for each of the Pinky episodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pink Passion | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Sometime during exam period three years ago a fanfare interrupted an otherwise peaceful dinner in the Freshman Union. Weary Freshmen looked up to see a large white sheet emblazoned with a pink "A+" unfurled from the balcony. A figure well over six feet tall in a white lab coat appeared, shed the coat, and dropped down to the floor of the Union dressed in a black wet suit with another pink "A+" painted on the chest. The man in the wet suit then ran throughout the Union distributing previously graded blue books. The grades were, of course, all A plusses...

Author: By Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, | Title: They Took Two Years to Proselytize, But Now They're at Harvard Again | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

What he really loves is his automobile. He overlooks his wife with her hair up in pink rollers, sagging into an upside-down question mark in her tight slacks. But he lavishes attention on his Mercury mistress, Easy Rider shocks, oversize slickers, dual exhaust. He exults in tinkering with that beautiful engine, lying cool beneath the open hood, ready to respond, quick and fiery, to his touch. The automobile is his love and his sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS: Those Good Ole Boys | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...living what I was writing." At home he wrote songs by day, but on weekends he enjoyed himself playing countrified rock 'n' roll at the ancient Fort Pierce Hotel. It was a class act. His group bought white tuxedos from the Salvation Army, dyed them pink and covered the lapels with glitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/music: A Honky -Tonk Man | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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