Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then it was noisy. Then two identical brunettes in identical bathing suits came and it was noisier. But they just stood around. An assistant walked out with some chairs, unfolded a collapsible table, and then pointed to the wings. Suddenly dashing out, resplendent in white suit and a matching pink cumberbund tie and shirt set with a microphone behind him, was Dr. Jekyll...
PALACE. ADMISSION FREE) at which the policies of his one-party government are submitted for general approbation. Last week in the capital of Pnompenh, 8,000 "congressmen"-shopkeepers, farmers, tricycle drivers, artisans and housewives-assembled in a huge scarlet tent, set up among the peach-pink and ochre-tinted pagodas, to hear their princely Premier outline his new foreign policy...
...authorities have at last found the Cypriot whose paintbrush adorned a wall with a slogan offensive to the Governor. Such scenes at police headquarters suggest a boys' game gone terribly wrong- the young, pink-faced British soldier looks almost as scared as the culprit he drags in, squirming and nauseated with fear. This criminal is a schoolboy of 14; the message he painted was "Harding come down from your helicopter." The punishment for the boy's crime: three months in prison...
...those who disagree can go ahead and award pink letters on blue backgrounds if they want...
...painted for a reliquary for the convent of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, he relied on rich gold, Byzantine in its richness, for a background. Fra Angelico's own contributions were the new, soft-flowing harmonies of the robes, the fresh coloring which juxtaposed azure against deepest blue, pink against red to create a glowing world of weightless form and radiant, shadowiess color...