Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stately hall of London's Tate Gallery, paintings of 52 proud and pink-cheeked youths went on display last week. On loan from Eton, they were pictures of senior boys done by the best British portraitists of the 18th and early igth Centuries...
...biggest crowds. The painters, too, showed pride; two abstractionists withdrew their pictures from the jammed display window of a 5 & 10? store, explaining they had no wish to compete with pots & pans. But Giuseppe Gheduzzi, a traditional artist, did very well against similar odds; his pictures, surrounded by pink girdles and brassieres in the window of the Casa del Busto (House of the Bust), sold best...
...Hurry. The boss of Guinness is the second Earl of Iveagh (rhymes with diver), 76, pink-cheeked, white-haired great-great-grandson of the founder. Lord Iveagh, who by preference and habit drinks only Guinness or water, was twice winner (1895-96) of the Diamond Sculls at the Henley Regatta, pioneered pure milk production in England, now runs a dairy farm on his 23,000-acre estate in England. Lord Iveagh and the Guinness family still have controlling stock in the company which, in 1950, earned ?1.9 million ($5.3 million...
...week, in the pink marble Palais Rose, the wrangling continued. When the U.S. proposed that the agenda include a peace treaty for Austria, Gromyko agreed -provided Trieste was discussed also since, he argued, the allies had transformed Trieste into a base of aggression. Again & again, as he exhausted other arguments, Jessup tried to show Gromyko, with every conceivable shading and turn of phrase, that this kind of reasoning was not objective. Gromyko knew that. It was not his business to be objective...
...Delhi, India's National Sports Club had built a modern, 35,000-spectator stadium with eight entrance tunnels, a pink-tinted cycle track, a cinder track, an arena for field events, a main grass arena for football, hockey and basketball, a swimming pool with a spectator capacity of 5,000. There last week, teams from eleven Asian countries competed in the first Asiad, a program of events patterned after the world Olympics. The countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Siam.* Stated purpose of the Asiad: "Maintaining world peace." Another purpose: promoting the Asians...