Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Work Harder. After watching portly A. V. Vlasov, head of the Soviet Academy of Architecture, struggle good-naturedly with a tippety butterfly chair, the delegates were shown by pretty, pink-clad hostesses around a futuristic pink kitchen. The Russians were unimpressed. Noting a built-in radio, Kozuilia ventured to suggest that housewives might be distracted and let the lunch burn. When he saw a built-in cosmetics drawer near the sink, he cracked: "And do you also sleep in the kitchen?" Again a builder explained: "You'd be surprised how this helps sell houses." Said Kozuilia...
...When the new alumnus gets slowly soused of a Saturday afternoon, he will care not one whit whether Crimson is in triumph flashing. As interested alumni gradually become extinct, the Harvard farm system will dwindle. Within a decade the Red Beast will again be no more than a small pink rodent...
When the bride, lovingly nicknamed "Princess Tiger Eyes" by the prince, arrived late at the altar, the impatient groom scolded her untenderly in English, "You're awfully late, dear." But he gave her a wedding present of a snappy Mercedes-Benz wrapped in cellophane and bedecked with pink carnations and blue irises. After the wedding luncheon in the historic Palazzo Brandolini, the newlyweds, whose titles date back to the Middle Ages and whose family fortunes are immense, were off on their honeymoon-to Niagara Falls...
...night last week, the floor show was led by Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and Bridgeport Brass Co.'s President Herman W. Steinkraus. Wearing white smocks, the two bore down on a 12-ft.-by-8-ft. white fiberboard elephant, proceeded to dab the elephant with pink paint. Then, some 550 Bridgeport Brass employees filed past, finished painting the elephant from trunk to tail...
...painting was to celebrate the way that Bridgeport's Steinkraus has turned a white elephant of a factory at nearby Adrian, Mich. into a healthy pink. Bridgeport Brass took over the plant 22 months ago (after five companies had leased it and given it up in rapid succession) to make aluminum forgings and extrusions, its first major venture into the aluminum business...