Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would the appointment have any effect on Ike Eisenhower's plans for 1952? The man whom Tom Dewey had named as his candidate for the Republican presidential nomination flushed bright pink...
Gone are the small-print clauses; there remains a list of eight charities, chosen by the drive committee, which are only superficially obscured by a large pink veritas shield. The committee reports that it chose these charities carefully, basing its decision mainly on the percentage of its income which the organization devotes to actual charity work, as opposed to publicity...
Solicitors with little pink and white cards will start their rounds of College dormitories today, as the 1950 edition of the Combined Charities officially opens...
Pipe Session. At 7:45 the two men emerged into the tropic sunshine and made another rattling journey, this time to Wake's new coral-pink administration building. Their advisers-General Omar Bradley, Frank Pace, Admiral Radford, Philip Jessup and Averell Harriman for the President, Korean Ambassador John Muccio and Brigadier General Courtney Whitney for MacArthur-were waiting. The President suggested that it was no weather for coats. Said MacArthur, pulling out a pipe: "Do you mind if I smoke, Mr. President...
...wife of a Cardiff workingman, 41-year-old, pink-sweatered Florence Poynter, mother of two, brought cheers from 4,000 representatives at the Conservative Party's 71st annual conference at Blackpool last week. Her husband, said Mrs. Poynter, earned only ?4 17s. 2d. (about $13.50) weekly, so that she had to leave her children and go out scrubbing. She had been better off before the war when her husband had brought home only ?2 10s. By thus dramatically emphasizing the rise in the cost of living and affirming her faith in the Conservative Party, now in opposition, Mrs. Poynter...