Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he entered the Naval Academy he was 16, and younger than most of his classmates. His grades, mediocre at first, got better every year. The 1916 Lucky Bag (Academy yearbook) said: "Raddy came to us as a child-a pink-cheeked Apollo; since then he has been fooling people." The yearbook entry mentioned Radford's prowess with "drags" (i.e., girls), and sketched a disaster that happened in his second year-"he got a smoking pop with a hop only a week off"-which means that he was disciplined for out-of-bounds smoking and missed a dance...
...artist that the subject was one after his own color-hungry heart. Wrote Van Gogh in one of his last letters: "I have just painted that red and green vehicle in the courtyard of the inn ... a simple foreground of grey gravel, a background very very simple too, pink and yellow walls, with windows with green shutters and a patch of blue sky. The two carriages very brightly colored, green and red, the wheels -yellow, black, blue and orange...
...Sometimes," he told admirers at the show's opening, "I see the form in my mind and it grows and grows as I work. I am happy when I am hacking out; I never want to stop." Smoothing the thigh of his Dancing Figure with a pink-palmed hand, he sighed and added: "But when I must finish off my work, smooth the surface and polish-then I get bored. The creation is gone...
...mistakes. Energetic administrators like Governor Nguyen Huin Tri must be helped, and others told to use what they have before asking for more. A social policy must at least be initiated. Indo-Chinese intellectuals must be taught that self-rule is not merely something presented with a charter and pink ribbon, but a status to be earned and a responsibility to be accepted...
...Senator Taylor was up for renomination. The people of Idaho had heard his songs before. This time they were more interested in his political tune -and whether he had changed it since 1948. Glen wasn't explicit on that point. By running for Vice President under the dark pink banner of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, he conceded that he had made a "poor political move"-but he was "not apologizing" for it, nor would he now criticize the U.S.S.R. because "I don't want to say anything that might stir up another...