Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Small Voice. Commonweal, which looks like (but usually disagrees with) the pink-eyed Nation, is still generally unfriendly to Franco. Its "progressive opinion" has stirred up many a furor among Catholics. A strong voice of the anti-Communist left, Commonweal is pro-union and consumer cooperatives, and anti-bigotry. It used to whiplash Detroit's ranting Father Coughlin, and blamed Boston's Catholic Irish for the long, grubby reign of Mayor James Michael Curley. When gravediggers at a New York Catholic cemetery struck last year for higher wages, and Cardinal Spellman personally led the strikebreakers, Commonweal sided with...
Explaining that "I don' sing too good," the plump evangelist snatched the microphone and struggled through six verses of "He'll Understand." As he sang the words "my hands sore and scarred from the work I have done," Owen glanced down at his own fat, pink hands and suddenly shoved them into his pockets. A small boy picked up his hat and coat, but was jammed back into a seat by his father...
McCarthy the Accuser. Next day, McCarthy was back in a more familiar role. Flourishing a pink-covered brief of "documentary evidence," he appeared before a Foreign Relations subcommittee to oppose the confirmation of Ambassador at Large Philip Jessup as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. His "documentary evidence" would prove his charge that Jessup "has a great affinity for Communist causes," said McCarthy...
...four-page contract included with the order warned the Chamber about such things as discrimination in employment, patent infringements, the Eight-Hour Law of 1912. Five pages of Additional General Provisions dealt with contract termination, labor disputes and the loading, bracing and blocking of freight cars. A pink slip pointed out that a variation of 10% in the quantity ordered would be unacceptable, but paragraph 31 of the Provisions said such a variation was O.K. Last week the Chamber wearily decided that "the red tape has already cost the taxpayers enough." Gratis to the Air Force, "properly loaded, blocked...
Jimmy lay in state in an orchid casket covered with a rose blanket. There was a canopy from the door of the funeral home to the sidewalk, some fading pink flowers in the yard. "They're dying out," said Mama. "But they're still kinda nice for Jimmy." Mama held off the burial for eight days, but finally gave in this week. Said she: "I ain't in no hurry to rush him into the ground. I kept him out just as long as they...