Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scenery and the $1.10 dollar; thousands more, mostly Texans and Californians, were heading down Mexico's modern, gas-station-studded highways for the Old-World atmosphere, the bullfights, the silver jewelry and the cheap peso, and a healthy minority from the East were bound for Bermuda's pink sands or for the West Indies, with its palm trees and invigorating cheap...
...have done what I wanted to do here," said Wales's pudgy, pink-cheeked Poet Dylan Thomas, after a three-month tour of the U.S. "I met Charles Chaplin and Carl Sandburg, and I insulted a rich industrialist." Thomas, who has been writing scripts for the BBC, was puzzled by one thing: "Why do so many American poets teach? They graduate from college, and then they stay in college. When do they learn anything...
...Government official fell upon a surprising Amerasia article. It quoted at length and almost verbatim from a secret report which was supposed to be tucked safely away in the Office of Strategic Services' file. The OSS immediately put a special investigator, Frank Brooks Bielaski, on Amerasia's pink and wispy trail...
...Zanuck is richly endowed with tough-mindedness, talent, an outsized ego, and a glutton's craving for hard work. These qualities, indulged with endless enthusiasm for a quarter-century, have not only sped him to the top but have somehow left him free of ulcers and in the pink of health...
Unlike many airline bosses, hardknuckled, pink-cheeked Thomas Elmer Braniff, 66, was a middle-aged man when he went into aviation. He started out at 17 to sell insurance, later branched out into Oklahoma real estate, by 1927 had already made a fortune. Then he put up $10,000 to finance a one-horse airline which operated one single-engine Stinson cabin plan from Oklahoma City to Tulsa, 116 miles away...