Word: pinking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pink Champagne. Next day the Dockers called in the press, poured out pink champagne and their hearts. Sir Bernard's father had helped build the B.S.A. empire; Sir Bernard had been chairman since 1938; and his fortune was founded around the company. Said Sir Bernard, cigar in hand, tears in eyes: "I've been sacked, sacked, sacked. When father left the board, they gave him a gold watch. For me they called a special meeting, and the only subject they discussed was my departure. Damnable." Cried Lady Docker even more tearfully: "It's not the loss...
When Captain Edward A. Tappe boarded his Capital Airlines DC-4 at Washington's National Airport one afternoon last week for a no-passenger flight to Baltimore, he saw a pink puddle on the rug between the forward luggage compartments. Thinking it might be hydraulic fluid, he put his finger in it, put the finger to his nose, and sniffed. It was not hydraulic fluid so he wiped his finger on his uniform and forgot about...
...Baltimore, as 22 passengers for Pittsburgh lined up to go aboard, a baggage crew unloading the plane saw pink fluid dripping from a cardboard carton marked in inch-high letters LIVE POLIO VIRUS. The plane was airborne and banking in its turn westward when ground officials got through to Johns Hopkins University's Dr. Manfred M. Mayer (to whom the shipment was consigned). Said Mayer: "It is extremely virulent and dangerous. You must take all precautions at once...
...Forbidden Planet. A spring cruise at the speed of light to Altair-4-a small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand. (TIME, April...
Forbidden Planet. A spring cruise at speed of light to Altair-4-a small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service. Caution: pack a rocket pistol. Occasional monsters (TIME, April...