Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quietly, facing the microphone. But energetic Anna Rosenberg, seated beside him, making her first appearance on Capitol Hill as Assistant Secretary of Defense, was never still. She toyed constantly with her glasses, fluttered papers, jangled her heavy charm bracelets, restlessly tucked her hair up under her sequin-studded pink...
Bishop Le Huu Tu is an interesting personality; for 17 of his 54 years he was a Trappist monk. He has black eyebrows and protruding teeth. When he smiles, revealing a dazzling expanse of teeth and pink gums, and his long, bony hands flutter sensitively, he suddenly becomes transfigured into a man of charm and considerable magnetism. In 1945, before his rebellion, Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh named Bishop Tu "Supreme Counselor." "Being Supreme Counselor to Ho Chi Minh," explains Tu suavely, "was only an expedient. I realized from the first that he was Communist, but I used to tell...
...also hearing the sounds of home. A BBC overseas program called You Asked for It carried such nostalgic sounds as the chime of Southampton's Civic Center clock striking 8, the rumble of the Welsh express going through the Severn tunnel, the Dunstable Salvation Army band blowing itself "pink in the face beside the traffic lights on a Saturday evening...
When the clerk told him the three-day waiting period might be waived, he was delighted. He hurried Mildred to the chambers of Superior Judge Henry Clay Agnew and was given a pink slip. "Is that all?" asked the Earl, obviously rather astounded. "That's all," said the judge. Beaming, the Earl left, told newsmen he was now married, and departed with Mildred for a Tacoma motel which had been chosen as the type of nuptial chamber most suitable for one in the Earl's financial condition. "Her ladyship hasn't enough money for hotels," he explained...
...main themes of the toys this year are science and war. Keeping up with the year's changes in the nuclear laboratories, the new Atomic Energy Labs, selling at $49.50, are now equipped with deionizers, Dri-electric power packs, and Geiger Counters. Thousands of smiling pink-checked celebrants on the 25th are being exhorted to test the radioactivity of ore samples, measure half-lives, view the alpha particle effect on fluorescent screens, and prospect for radio-active deposits on the way to school. Parents are assured that success in this venture may lead to a $10,000 reward, that very...