Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822) was an unstable Ulster aristocrat whose favorite costume (pink hunting coat and riding boots) made him a figure in Parliament. Foreign Secretary from 1812 to 1822, he stiffened the Grand Alliance that defeated Napoleon. At the Congress of Vienna, which laid the foundations for a hundred years of Pax Britannica, he put on a classic display of balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following...
...small (5 ft. 5½ in.), pink-cheeked man who wears a button-front sweater with his Brooks Brothers suit, Shawn has a reputation for politeness and tact that is almost as legendary as Ross's volcanic temper. "No one," says a friend, "has yet gotten through a door behind him." Editor Shawn never swears or raises his voice. He works up to 14 hours a day as quietly as a bank clerk, carries home a pile of work to his Fifth Avenue apartment. For relaxation, he plays hot jazz on the piano and reads four or five books...
Some students come to the Bureau expecting to be given a formula or "pink pill" that will automatically better their grades. Some of those who took the reading course even expected before-hand to have their reading speed raised a certain, specific amount. The ability of the Bureau to help a student, however, depends upon the initiative he takes and how actively he takes part in the discussion, as the final expert in his own affairs. "We serve the student best as his consultant," Perry says. "He can't come and expect to be told what to do even when...
...Fogg Large Room's peeling pink walls which attract the examgoer's attention, nor the tightly packed seats with their writing boards tilted at odd angles by long usage. It is the queer lighting arrangement, consisting of ceiling lamps with low wattage bulbs encased in cardboard sheaths...
...Fast: "It is suspected that a sharp fall of shares [after the pact] was not entirely accidental, and in two of the most conscienceless New York newspapers there was provocation for a Fascist coup . . . Prices fell . . ." But after the great day, Novelist Fast saw triumph at last for the Pink and Red press that plies its trade on the eastern seaboard. "Two big New York dailies, formerly reactionary, joined with the [New York] Compass, the National Guardian and the Daily Worker to call for a People's Convocation for Peace...