Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essay, Miller was disarmingly explicit about the petty social humiliations and painful hypocrisies of the closeted homosexual, starting from his childhood in Marshalltown, Iowa, where his mother, who wanted a girl, kept him in pink as a baby, sent him to school in his steel-rimmed glasses carrying a music roll, thus exposing him to kids who took one look and called him "sissy." His first sexual encounter (at the age of twelve) was with a boy who dropped off a freight train one night. Miller recalled how in later life his best friend telephoned to say that his eldest...
...past the woods and swamps and there's DeRoss out there somewhere swimming away and they've got me and Jack; and Pierre's probably all packed away and Jacobs is home free and Billy Morrison is leading the football team out of danger in the big broad pink Mercury he use ta have and then Terry's got such a head of pressure built up, God! he braces his foot against the cage and he just lets it all go and it catches the sheriff right in the ear and Chick had a lotta beer...
...Soldiers. Men complain that the girls have never been so unapproachable. Girls complain that the men do not approach. "Matters have got so bad that you kind of miss being pinched," complained a voluptuous blonde in pink veils last week. Madeleine Schmidbauer, 22, a winsome lieutenant in the guard of one of Munich's carnival princes for the past three years, agreed: "Formerly, when we came down the ramp, marching in step, we prided ourselves on being toy soldiers everyone wanted to play with. Now people look at us with the same disdain as they look at the Bundeswehr...
...such a commanding lead in the school figures, the technical half of the event, that her competent but dull performance in freestyle skating did not deter her from winning the gold medal on total points. The freest spirit of all was U.S. Skater Janet Lynn. A pixy in pink, the tiny (5 ft. 2 in., 108 Ibs.) teen-ager whirled through her double Salchows and camel spins with grace and a kind of smiling elan, despite a fall, to win the freestyle and a bronze medal overall...
...various colored squares to be spread out on the stage, a few playing pieces, and lying around till needed: a baby bonnet, an adolescent's edition of The Prophet, a college fraternity sweater, a martini glass, etc. and various packs of white opportunity cards, yellow penalty cards, and pink maturity cards. For the Games Master: a bell, a buzzer, and a whistle...