Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...security curtain rested the most prestigious guest ever to adorn Arizona Maine Chance: the First Lady of the U.S. For Mamie Eisenhower's stay, the management had prettied up a seven-room cottage, coating the outside with white and blue paint and redecorating Mamie's bedroom in pink, her favorite color (Elizabeth Arden...
...impressed, set out in a howling blizzard for the coast 1,200 miles away. His Sno-Cats ran like sewing machines. The scientists made their elaborate observations-the purpose of the expedition-and everything seemed to be going line when Seismologist Geoffrey Pratt suddenly collapsed. His face was bright pink with carbon monoxide poisoning from the exhaust of the Sno-Cat that he had been driving. Fuchs radioed for help and Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, U.S. Antarctic leader at McMurdo Sound, sent two Navy Neptunes with oxygen and British Physiologist Griffiths Pugh, an expert on carbon monoxide poisoning...
...least understood and who need guidance most. Everyone loves to play with a cute and docile baby, but teen-agers are too often unwanted." Last fall Mother Mary welcomed to Girls' Town 16 ragged, frightened orphan girls from institutions all over Italy. They looked in wonder at the pink exterior walls, the brightly painted rooms ("Colored paint costs no more than white, and it's much more cheerful"). One girl exclaimed at the sight of a mirror on the wall: "We were never allowed mirrors in the orphans' home!" Mother Mary quickly replied: "I want...
...paneled lecture room at the University of Chicago one day last week, a pink-cheeked, wispy-haired little man mounted the raised platform, pushed his horn-rimmed glasses up on to his forehead and began to speak. He was not comfortable. "I do not feel at ease when I have to speak," said Painter Marc Chagall. "My language...
...seldom were a classic action and a classic method so mismated. 'Stage struggles over a will make for melodrama or serious drama, farce or sardonic comedy, for banged fists, shaking fingers or skinny claws-but not for the playfully brandished rapier. Fencing verbally, the brothers sometimes neatly pink each other, even achieve an occasional moral louche. But they use buttoned foils on synthetic flesh. Nor, in place of human drama, is there any real psychological probing or moral insight. The wastrel's behavior, at the end, for example, has no ironic force and is wholly out of character...