Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proved entertaining for a half hour, and then we ran into the airport's only trouble spot-the gift shop. Liz, after convincing me not to buy my sister a pink straw cowboy hat, a silly-looking plastic sculpture of a cowboy, or a coffee mug with "Texas Longhorns" stamped on the side, hugged me good-bye and went off to her plane, not to be seen in Austin for days to come...
...Shivering in the 10° cold, some 2,000 demonstrators, including students, auto workers, Indians and blacks, waved placards outside of Reagan's Bloomington, Minn., rally. Some signs tagged him as PRESIDENT HOOVER. In Iowa, Reagan critics held up antibudget slogans Like NANCY GETS RED DRESSES, WE GET PINK SLIPS. In Indiana, Democratic legislators wore buttons reading "12.4%"-the state's unadjusted December unemployment rate...
...parking lot of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood, Calif. It is an increasingly common sight these days. Out of the van comes a clump of helium-filled balloons, bobbing in the expensive air. They are blue and silver: it's a boy. Next, a balloon bouquet of pink, pearl and white: a girl. In Hollywood, where trendiness is a measure of sincerity, sending flowers to mothers who have just given birth to babies went out with designer jeans and saying "Trust me." These days the modish gift is balloons...
...Women run, scuba dive and fence, sometimes against the advice of their doctors, while carrying a child. One New York periodontist in her late 30s refused to stop riding with her local hunt club when she became pregnant. She merely traded in her form-fitting "hunting pink" jacket for a man's jacket to cover her swelling stomach, and continued to follow the hounds and, no doubt, perplex...
...known only as the books began to be distributed in Europe in recent weeks. Many documents were found intact by the embassy attackers but others had been shredded by frantic U.S. personnel. These have been painstakingly pasted back together by the militants. The papers were of different colors-blue, pink, yellow and white-which helped the reassembly process. Even so, the militants might have needed 40 hours to paste together a page. Said one Iranian official last week: "We succeeded because God is with...