Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar school intellectual, the new technical school boys whose knowing twang you hear on every bus, every manic-depressive Orwellite, fissurated Koestlerite, prehistoric Fabian, antique Keir Hardyite, flaming anti-Roman Catholic, like . . . the editor himself, Mr. Kingsley Martin, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin's Bottled Bellyache...
...Cairo, an arch topped with a pink neon heart and the initials F and N stood waiting for the Queen to pass through. Eighteen minutes after leaving her home, Narriman swept into the palace with four trainbearers guarding the corners of her trailing gown and faced her husband...
This was in line with the attitude found in the 72 other colleges studied throughout the country where the Times found that individuals are inhibited from speaking out on controversial issues by fear of: "1. Social disapproval; 2. A 'pink' or Communist label; 3. Criticism by regents, legislature and friends; 4. Rejection for further study at graduate schools; and 5. The spotlight of investigation by Government and private industry for post-graduate employment and service with the armed forces...
...Thames last summer, was on the glum side. The U.S. crew season had only just opened. He figured his crew could be "about four lengths faster a month from now," since in spring practice Harvard had only managed to log 180 miles. By contrast, Cambridge, in the racing pink, Had logged practice spins of about 850 miles, had defeated its traditional rival Oxford by 15 lengths, then whipped Yale a fortnight ago by four lengths (TIME, April 23). Said confident Cambridge Coach Harold Rickett: "We'll never be any better than...
...Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK On a pink official form...