Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami Beach's Roney Plaza Hotel, in a pink-and-grey room hung with old French prints of pastoral love scenes, six leaders of U.S. unionism met one morning last week to negotiate a union of their forces, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. "If we can't get together this time," said A.F.L. President George Meany through his cigar smoke, "we'd better give it up." By evening they had agreed-after years of bickering and battle-to merge A.F.L. and C.I.O. into one big federation, 15 million strong...
Late last year a liveried chauffeur began poking around the French Riviera, seeking a country mansion to suit the tastes of his employer, an anonymous Paris industrialist. Through a Paris real estate office, he finally negotiated the purchase of a stately, green-shuttered pink villa. Price for the estate, which sprawls near the Aga Khan's Cannes hideaway: $90,000. The tipoff that the new owner was no ordinary industrialist came last November, when the locals learned that he had ordered a new lodge built on the grounds especially to house his platoon of bodyguards. Last week the mysterious...
...Strongman Juan PerÓn, already acclaimed at home as his nation's No. 1 worker, No. 1 engine-driver, No. 1 journalist and No. 1 sportsman, won his oddest title yet. The canary breeders of the city of Rosario (pop. 522,000) presented Aviculturist Peron with a pink warbler, a gold medal and bird-seeded him as the Argentine's No. 1 canary breeder...
Spotless & Frugal. N.Z.Z.'s stocky, pink-cheeked Editor Willy Bretscher, 57, who has worked on the paper for 37 years and been its boss for more than 20, is proudest of his daily's fight against Naziism. When a small band of Swiss Nazis began to sing Hitler's praises...
...only spitted another brace of gizzards. Three hundred years later, the same Count Fosca "shot myself in the chest and then in the mouth"; 300 years after that, still going strong, he drew a razor across his throat, but "the lips of the gash [drew] together...only a long pink scar remained...