Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Than? In Buddhist Burma, where polygamy is legal (although wives are usually taken one at a time), these things are more readily solved than elsewhere. Sein had a talk with Thein; Than had a talk with San. Last week, in a bridal ceremony during which, clad in a pink sarong, he sat on a carpet with his betrothed, Bridegroom Thein took both Than and San to be his lawful wedded wives...
...darkness of early morning in Washington, Britain's Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks pulled on a topcoat over his pink pajamas and, along with Lady Franks and their two daughters, hurried out to watch a $10,000 fire raze a tool shed on the embassy grounds. The fireside group was soon joined by a neighbor, New Zealand's Ambassador Leslie Knox Munro, who for the occasion wore striped pajamas and a loud Paisley bathrobe...
...Pink Clouds. Ike took the salute like a candidate who was in love with his job. He nudged Mamie when the first float rolled by; it was a replica of the white frame house where he was born in Denison, Texas, and bore a sign which read: "Birth Date Oct. 14, 1890." He did a little caper on the marquee when the high-school band played Alexander's Ragtime Band. And he grabbed Mamie and hugged her when he saw the "marriage float," bearing two Abilene youngsters on pink clouds in front of a heart-shaped lattice. The last...
...succeeded in pulling Reed out of the red, but he has never quite finished the job of pulling its reputation out of the pink. That, says he, will be something for the academic man from Cambridge to do -"And I say to him: snap to it, brother...
That night the Eisenhowers retreated to the presidential suite of the Statler Hotel. Next day Ike went to Walter Reed Hospital to have a stubborn case of-pink eye examined, while Mamie got her first chance in seven months at a U.S. department store. Ike made his duty calls at the Pentagon and lunched formally with Defense Secretary Lovett. Then, trading his uniform for a well-cut civilian suit, Ike Eisenhower followed his high road on out across...