Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...84th Congress is deeply concerned with the destiny of the U.S. in a world of upheaval. So is Walter George. The Congress is vitally interested in a stable national economy. So is George. The Congress does not seek to spoonfeed the nation with welfare cure-alls or sociological pink pills. Neither does George...
...first rains of the monsoon showered down upon Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), cooling the weather but not the city's jittery nerves. There were quiet Buddhist ceremonies in Chinese pagodas, a pink and white wedding at the cathedral, and an outward pose of calm. But heavily armed gangsters and cops of the Binh Xuyen sect, in their arsenic-green berets, patrolled the boulevards, ordering traffic, and blockading the city's approaches so that they could control the price and supply of rice. Steel-helmeted nationalist paratroopers of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem were also out on patrol...
...Roman Catholic visitors expected, leaders of all factions want to keep up a hospitable appearance of normality. In the Cabinet comings and goings, a new Finance Minister shouldered the burden of coping with inflation-ridden Brazil's nagging economic problems. Minister José Maria Whitaker is a pink-cheeked, white-mustached. 76-year-old Sāo Paulo banker with 13 children, 68 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. Brazilians took heart from his promise to avoid "hasty solutions," and from his reputation as a hardheaded financier. A columnist called the appointment "an unexpected miracle," and the free-market cruzeiro climbed...
...shrines, and today the only recurring evocation of its stirring last days is the curse which may sometimes be heard on Indian lips: "By the sin of the sack of Chitor." The Rajput armorers became a tribe of wandering blacksmiths called the Gadia Lohars, big, fork-bearded men in pink turbans, women wearing silver bangles and big silver nose rings, and untouchables worshiping the smallpox goddess, Sheetala. Without quite knowing why, they still observe their ancient vow: never do they sleep under a roof, but live in carts, wherein children are born and the old die, in which their beds...
Continuing Strike. Last week, despite the strike, a steady stream of artillery shells, precision instruments, pink washbasins and peach bathtubs flowed off the Kohler assembly lines. The company hinted that it had 3,000 men at work, as against 3,300 before the walkout, said it was operating at a profit. The union conceded that Kohler had 1,800 employees at work, but claimed that 2,800 of the 2,850 U.A.W. members who walked out last year were still holding out. The strike had already cost the union some $4,000,000 in benefits-$25 weekly to each striker...