Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neon tubes lit the huge, glass-walled Bundestag against the night as the members dropped their vote cards-blue for yes, pink for no, white for abstaining-in the small black ballot boxes. The vote on EDC: 224 blue, 165 pink, 2 white...
News of Upstairs. Then Mamie was ready for questions. While pencils flashed like knitting needles, Mamie let the girls in on some of the upstairs news. She had converted Bess Truman's sitting room into her own bedroom, had painted it a restful green, and moved in pink furniture. The White House, she confided, was not such a bad home: "I think it's really livable for as large a house as it is. I love the high ceilings...
...gentle with him. "Imagine," editorialized London's New Statesman and Nation last week, "that the Chinese Communists were given their rightful seat on the Security Council . . . Then the cement that holds the Stalinite empire so rigidly together might begin to flake away." The New Statesman inhabits a pink cloud all its own, but on this particular issue there were some surprising echoes to the left & right in Britain...
...marry him. Eileen said no, but agreed to one last weekend together. As "Mr. & Mrs. Pierre Delaitre of Paris," they registered a fortnight ago at the Ritz, the staid old Victorian hostelry on Piccadilly. Their room was No. 223-one of the best in the house, painted a glowing pink and with a Louis...
...shirts, the oxford weave, with the button-down, tab, or golf collar is worn all year. However, don't be fooled merely because a shirt is both oxford weave and button-down: pink is still pink...