Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south Georgia the piney woods were green, yellow forsythia buds were breaking open, and the camellias-pink, red and white-were in full glory. The buoyancy of spring was on the land, and Dwight Eisenhower, fresh in from Washington, was a man eminently in tune with his environment. From the moment he stepped out of the Columbine at Moultrie at midweek, the President's progress was reminiscent of the heady days of the 1952 campaign...
Miss Mills seemed more certain of herself, because she wasn't substituting for anybody, and she was hidden behind a pink hat. She said that she thought it was a breath of life to see such an uncynical show, and we applauded, so the reporter told us to go back to the martinis. The book costs fifty cents at the Coop...
...Nigeria's own Minister of Labor and Welfare, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. But he was topped by the head of Lagos' town council, Chief Oba Adeniji-Adele, resplendent in raiment as majestic, but also wearing a glittering gold crown that outdid the Queen's own bright pink straw hat. Said one dusky onlooker: "I like her, but she's got to get fatter before she'll be a real Queen...
...Pink Was My Pally. Most intolerable to Mr. Hamish Gleave are the Americans-the eager-beaver young men from the State Department, who do not wear waistcoats, who take security leaks so seriously, and whose typists earn more than he does. If Novelist Llewellyn is to be believed, the anti-American feeling runs like a psychosis through much of the Foreign Office. Better, thinks Gleave, the Russians than the Yanks with their "sample cases and cigars." Better the naked power of the Soviet, which does not make him bitter about his frayed cuffs...
French governesses, she brushes her full lips with pink, wears blue jeans, listens to Frankie Laine records, and goes partying like other girls. It is not the fact that Moroccan women wear veils that bothers Princess Aisha: "The main thing is that they have the right to take them off if they want...