Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pink Jungle" [June 16]. How could you do it! American men should know better, but any non-American reading that article would really be convinced that all American women are naught but a flock of foolish painted sheep. Also, unlike a decent, useful flock of sheep who always know their shepherd, we can't even be sure who is the crazy shepherd of the painted flock...
...Bren-gun carriers patrolled the bazaars; anxious citizens stood nervously by, holding umbrellas against the monsoon rains and clutching their wind-blown longyis (Burmese sarongs). Inside the building, 248 Deputies were jammed together under the rhythmic movement of 18 ceiling fans that fluttered the loose ends of their yellow, pink and blue head kerchiefs...
...Pink Oldsmobile in America, Chromium steel in America, Wire-spoke wheel in America-Very big deal in America...
...County Jail, part of the massive Romanesque courthouse complex that famed 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson thought would be judged his finest building. ("If they honor me for the pygmy buildings I have already done, what will they say when Pittsburgh is finished?'') Its heavy, grey-pink granite masonry now soot-blackened, the jail is under attack by builders who would like to replace it with an office building, is as fiercely defended by a "Save the Jail" group, including Architecture Historian Henry Russell Hitchcock, who calls it "a treasure of which Pittsburgh is the custodian." Status...
...24th round, Terry stumbled on another pronunciation tangle, correctly spelled her substitute word. A round later, Tina failed on soubise. Chance for a male uprising-no boy has won since 1954-ended in the 26th round when Stanley splashed into canaliculus. Jolitta, blonde, scrubbed, and pretty in a pink cotton dress that she made herself, easily tobogganed through pogamoggan and rigescent. Terry spelled coruscant and sirocco with no trouble...