Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mannequins all had the same masklike faces, but their wigs were individual. Mamie's unmistakable bangs topped the mannequin wearing Mamie's pink peau de sole inaugural-ball gown with pink rhinestones and long, matching suede gloves...
While Mamie, her mother Elivera Doud and her sister Frances ("Mike") Moore gushed over Martha Washington (Mechlin lace shawl and pink faille dress hand-painted with native North American flowers and insects), Ike went by the Blue Room (as it was in McKinley's time) and the Red Room (Coolidge era). At the end, he impatiently chewed his upper lip and, to hurry his ladyfolk along, called, "Say, come look at Mamie...
...unfolding, and blankets of wisteria spread over the houses. Outside Santa Fe, ribbons of green laced the brown adobe on the flatlands, and here and there the full-flowering lilacs formed purple buttons. On riverbanks of the Northwest, wild rhododendrons, spiraling up to 30 feet, were spreading red and pink and white blooms two hands wide. Spring was full-blown in the U.S., and the nation's prevailing mood seemed to be as bright as its blossoms...
...California, there are few stereotypes that could easily describe French youth. He is not a crew-cut kid with a souped-up V8. He is not a bronzed three-letter man with his steady blonde on his arm. He is not an eager-eyed young executive in a pink shirt, a dynamic young labor leader with a law-school degree, or a scholarly young physicist reporting confidently to a battery of television cameras...
Between London pub rounds, he lived in Laugharne, a silted-up old South Wales cockle port, bright with pink-washed cottages, near where he used to visit his grandfather as a boy. Life at Laugharne seemed to suit him. He played with his three children, visited his parents, who lived in the same village, cut his daily beer intake to ten pints. "It's lovely, on the sea," he said. "You can spit right into the sea from our window, and we frequently do - all the time, in fact. I potter in the morning. I'm a very...