Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prep school teams (1-20 to Deerfield--2-16 to Exeter). Of course we can't blame anyone if there just aren't enough good players around, but the least the H.A.A. could do is to give the teams some decent equipment. At present the squads wear faded, patched, pink shirts and usually have to trade off helmets and gloves...
...That night at No. 10, Prime Minister Eden gave a banquet, at which Britain's great appeared in "lounge suits" in deference to their guests' limited wardrobe. B. & K. came in voluminous gabardine topcoats over grey suits. But the hit of the evening was Sir Winston Churchill, pink and beaming at the old familiar door, waving a cigar and giving a V sign. Bulganin gave a jovial speech in which he obliquely compared Khrushchev to Churchill...
When Lawyer David Edward Finley, now 65, became first director of Washington's National Gallery, the nation's No. 1 showplace was scheduled to open with a meager ratio of only 30 works to every acre of pink marble halls. But in 18 years of skillful piloting, Director Finley has steered into the National Gallery outstanding private collections owned by such millionaire art lovers as Samuel H. Kress, Chester Dale and Lessing J. Rosenwald, and has watched the collection swell to more than 1,200 paintings and 326 sculptures. Under Finley the gallery gained a place among...
Forbidden Planet. For earthlings with that end-of-winter feeling: spring cruise at speed of light to Altair-4-small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand (TIME, April...
...Innocent" though he may have been in college, Schlesinger was apparently not naive, for he avoided the "pink" organizations which snared so many other young liberals. "He always had his feet on the ground," one friend explained. Schlesinger did join the Signet and the Advocate, and Phi Beta Kappa elected him first marshal...