Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comic sections down to half a page; the Hillsboro (Ore.) Argus has trimmed its obituary columns by leaving out the names of pallbearers. Seeking a brighter alternative, the Charleston (W. Va.) Sunday Gazette-Mail dipped into a reserve stock of tinted newsprint and ran off an edition splashed with pink, green and yellow...
...never understood this delusion of hers, but I'd drag her to parties anyway. And she would torture herself beforehand into the Look, a wasp-haired caricature, binding her curls tightly in a turban around her head, in a towel steamed for straightening. And she would chatter, and the pink would glow in her face. But then she would stand mum and prudish all night and hate herself in a corner. Afterwards, I'd try to comfort her, doing a stint of complaining myself to cheer her up. She never believed though, that I could hurt, too. She wanted...
...frilly pink motif, TV set for watching soap operas, shoebox filled with eye makeup, copies of Seventeen magazine...
...deputy sheriffs on the scene were kept busy. Although more than 600,000 people poured into the area before the festival ended, Watkins Glen proved by and large a very orderly, even sedate trip. There was little nudity and few medevacs. Campers gave wooded areas "street" names like Big Pink Lane and Hippie Highway. The show's promoters, after inundating newspapers and radio stations with advance publicity; announced days before the opening that the event was sold out. The unintended result was that even more people were attracted. "Woodstock was different," explained the festival's stage manager, Rock...
...technique on his own teeth. Using a regular child's toothbrush, he began brushing vigorously, trying to remove every trace of a sweet red wafer handed him a moment before by the technician. "It tastes like candy!" he yelled to a screaming crowd of balloon-carrying children, as pink foam from the brushing streamed over his sunburned chest...