Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan was spared the mambo until last fall, when touring Bandman Xavier Cugat introduced it. But it did not really catch on until the Japanese saw Jane Russell do the Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White mambo in the film Underwater! In the last two months more than half a million mambo records have been sold, and Japanese recording companies have been working overtime to meet the mamboom. Top hit is still Cherry Pink, followed closely by Skokiaan Mambo and Cerezo Rosa (a different arrangement of Cherry Pink). Local mambo composers are doing their best to catch...
...parent-teacher associations, with the recommendation that they be plugged on every possible occasion to drive out the "banal, vulgar, nerve-destroying" mambo. Then the educators rolled up heavy artillery in the form of a symphony orchestra imported from Tokyo. It got a respectful hearing, but this week Cherry Pink and Cerezo Rosa were beating harder than ever against Fukui eardrums. Said one local music critic sadly: "Fukui has 1,000 music lovers and 25,000 mambo fans...
...After 29 months at the most difficult job in the world, Dwight Eisenhower is a remarkable picture and package of health. His cheeks are pink; his eyes are clear. His weight is 177, just 5 Ibs. over his "best" West Point football-playing weight; his blood pressure is 150/84, little changed in three years and considered about right for such an energy-charged man. His physical condition is watched as closely as that of any living man, and the physicians consistently give him high marks...
...pain and terror rang out. A young woman stared in silent dismay at her Weeding leg stump. As survivors scattered in panic, a few more navy planes roared in low over the plaza. Two more bombs burst. From upper windows of the nearby Navy Ministry, machine guns sprayed the Pink House...
...begun-on the very day that he was excommunicated by the Pope for his bitter fight with the Roman Catholic Church. Ten minutes earlier, Perón, warned by intelligence agents that a military revolt was about to break out, had hustled out of the Pink House. Within minutes after the first bomb exploded, truckloads of soldiers raced to defend the Pink House from an advancing skirmish line of rebel marines. A government radio station shrilly called upon members of the Perón-controlled General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.) to seize automobiles, trucks and buses-killing the drivers if necessary...