Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keep your heads down," said Tryfus as we approached a railroad bridge. Twice in the past year it had been mined. We waited for a train to pass, climbed aboard a gasoline-driven "handcar" and rolled down the track to inspect the railroad line. Suddenly, in the darkness, a pink flare leaped. We stopped and found a land mine, planted on the rails after the last train passed just a few minutes before...
...Pink-cheeked and cold-eyed, Teamster Chieftain Dave Beck is one labor leader who not only admires the U.S. Big Businessman but considers himself a self-made if not yet fully recognized member of their lodge-he is proud of having made a fortune as a capitalist himself...
...four-week good-will swing around Latin America, pink-cheeked Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's Minister of Economics, stopped off last week in Chile. As in Mexico, where he opened his tour by attending the inauguration of a $25 million German industrial fair, he was welcomed as the fiscal wizard who symbolizes West Germany's spectacular economic comeback. Santiago's press gave him the Page One treatment, university professors asked him to lecture, and Chile's much-regulated businessmen applauded till the walls of the Union Club vibrated when he told them: "There is no miracle...
Oxonians take pride in the fact that Oxford won the first Boat Race in 1829. For that race, rowed in long, whaleboat-like shells. Oxford turned up in straw hats, dark blue striped jerseys and canvas trousers, while Cambridge added a gentle note with pink sashes. But from 1829 to modern times, the advantage has been Cambridge's. Between 1924 and 1937 the light blue was unbeaten for 13 straight years. Last week, with the series standing at 54 for Cambridge, 44 for Oxford, and a dead heat in 1877, heavier (by 5 Ibs. a man) Cambridge was favored...
...minutes from downtown Houston, in the vast, $60 million Texas Medical Center still abuilding, the M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute Stands out in a blush of pink marble. Just opened, it has 310 beds and everything that money can buy. But last week, only 98 beds were occupied and no more of the many waiting patients could be admitted. The main reason: shortage of nurses, which even a Texas oilman's millions cannot remedy. The hospital has 48 registered nurses and 66 aides; it needs more than twice as many, and where they will come from, nobody...