Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaming fellow, turned up in unexotic loafers, levis and leather chaps, managed to score one goal (he has a seven-goal rating) before the weather fagged him and his overburdened pony. The maharani, his darkly glamorous wife, looked cool and composed in a diaphanous sari of watermelon pink, but she didn't feel that way. "Saris look cool," she explained, "but they hug the ankles, and are really too hot on a day like this...
...behind the receiving line he thoughtfully installed an attic fan. to cool the royal rear. The maharani gamely learned to dance the Cha Cha Cha, while her husband consumed four bottles of champagne and discoursed on the fine points of pigsticking. When the turbaned waiters brought out a large pink and white birthday cake, the band struck up "Happy Birthday," and the guests sang spiritedly until they reached the last, difficult line: "Happy birthday, dear Your Highness, Maharaja of Jaipur, happy birthday...
...Kubitschek is his claim to be the political heir of Vargas, whose name is still magic among down-at-heel Brazilians. After first denouncing Kubitschek, Brazil's outlawed but vote-swinging Communist Party recently made an opportunistic switch and endorsed him. But he can hardly be called a pink, much less a Red. In fact, he fits into no ideological pigeonhole, but campaigns as a man of action who promises to build, build, build. His slogan: "Power, Transportation and Food...
...fame in Hollywood, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, confided that her heart really goes out to the lower animals. Sighed she wistfully: "All I have now is a great Dane, a Chihuahua, three cats named Sabina. Romulus and Ophelia, and a rabbit known as Bublitchki. I had a pink poodle, Bon Bon, which just died after we had it dyed pink to match my pink Jaguar ... I also had some mice, but somebody let them out in Atlantic City...
Hundreds of thousands of Americans ride for pleasure. Though Long Island, Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky still maintain hunts, riding even in the East and South is no longer primarily a pink-coated, exclusive affair; it has acquired much of the West's dungaree-clad casualness. The better-heeled riders maintain their own mounts - at $40 to $80 a month for feed and shelter. But most ride horses they do not own. They pay up to $3.50 an hour to canter adventurously over bri dle paths in city parks or $150 a week to rough it in dude ranches from...