Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executives-managers, engineers, sales agents. They are a hardworking, hard-drinking crew, and they have plenty of money to spend on oysters. Scottish salmon and French wine, served in Leo's nightclubs. The Belgians drive American cars, particularly Buicks, and wear colorful combinations of sun helmet, khaki shirt, pink shorts, bright green woolen socks and beige suede shoes. "They have two kinds of conversation," gibes an English-born resident of Leo. "One is an offer, the other a counter-offer...
...staff, says the history, "faithfully wore sample undergarments while carrying on preplanning ; male planners offered their best guesses in the matter, and the staff became accustomed, as one member noted, to 'seeing Lieut. F. stalk through the office with a cigar in one hand and a pair of pink panties in the other.' " The heraldic section of the Quartermaster General's office submitted designs for insignia. A first attempt "produced only a busy-bee-like insect, which Mrs. Hobby pronounced a bug, adding that she had no desire to be called the queen bee. Designers then...
...disregard of this ethic when an opponent like Mr. Buckley takes his turn at the plate. One example--and there are many others--of the former characteristic is the Liberal hue and cry, usually pursued to a sickening degree, whenever Joe McCarthy was alleged to have stepped on a pink toe. An example of the latter characteristic is Mr. Gwirtzman's report on Bill Buckley's lecture. Mr. Gwirtzman tried his best to discredit the seriousness of Mr. Buckley's intent by inflating a few casual remarks about who would or would not shake hands with whom to the status...
Noting that pink has become the U.S. color of 1955, in house furnishings as well as in clothing for both men and women, Chicago's H. W. Gossard Co. (girdles) last week announced a change of policy. Instead of emphasizing its recently popular blacks, blues and reds, Gossard will feature a new line of foundations in pink. Psychological research, said Gossard, had shown the reason for the U.S. color trend: "Pink represents a mood of sentimentality, good times and luxury...
...greatest public indication of the prosperity is on the highways and in the parking lots. This week the U.S. auto industry passed the 3,000,000 mark in 1955 auto production, the earliest that mark has ever been reached. Lined with brightly colored new cars (even some in girdle pink), parking lots are taking on the appearance of petunia beds. Said Drug Salesman John Tinder of Seymour, Ind.: "There's one feller in town who has a black car. Why, everybody knows where he is all the time...