Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. Senate plunged into a debate on the Bricker amendment. Soon over their heads and caught in the crosscurrents of Supreme Court decisions such as Missouri v. Holland and U.S. v. Pink, the Senators tried to thrash their way to familiar ground. For many, this effort led toward the barnyard...
...colored glass in turn. Dr. Miles lists their effects. If ordinary daytime vision is 20/20, then visual acuity at night, through clear glass, is cut to 20/32. A popular "night glass" of light yellow reduces visual acuity only to 20/34. But Dr. Miles found that a second popular shade, pink, cut visual acuity to 20/40. Finally, a green windshield reduced nighttime acuity to 20/46, but in combination with the pink glasses, it slashed vision to a deadly 20/60...
Since he owns only 2% of the stock himself, Roy Fruehauf looked for allies, but could not quite line up a majority of the stock. In the pinch, he turned to Seattle's Dave Beck, pink-faced boss of the A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Beck agreed to help, bought 37,500 shares of Fruehauf stock in the open market for about $950,000. But all voting rights and dividends were turned over to the Roy Fruehauf Foundation, Inc., which was incorporated in 1950 as a tax-free foundation to breed lead dogs for the blind. In effect, says...
When ballet connoisseurs start talking about the esthetics of their subject, the average citizen beats his way out of the pink-tinted fog to the nearest exit. George Balanchine, the most effective maker of ballets now living, has a refreshingly realistic way of getting down to esthetic fundamentals...
...also proved, to the surprise of many critics, that she can sing, dance and act (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire). Now seriously concerned about her career, she walked out on her studio a fortnight ago, just before she was to begin work on a musical called Pink Tights, a remake of Betty Grable's Coney Island (1943). The studio suspended her, but two days after the wedding announced that all was forgiven if Marilyn would only come back to work...