Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though housing is often the most critical, it is by no means the only problem that patients lay before Mrs. Wagner, a stocky, pink-faced woman of 42, and members of her staff. Since 90% of the tax-supported cancer hospital's patients are charity cases, drawn from all over Texas, most are grievously ill when they arrive and are far from home or relatives. They face long and perhaps uncomfortable treatment. They do not know what to expect...
...crowd scorned the meagre efforts of their public servants, the buffoons dashed off to the Square with as much dignity as their flowing cotton robes of pink and white would allow. This Tour de yard is part of the Lampoon's freshman competition...
After taking this for a while, Furcolo decided he had to squirm out from under this criticism. So in the keynote speech at its annual convention banquet, Furcolo told the ADA to disband. The public thought them pink, he said, and this weakened not only their work but the chances of any Democratic candidate they supported. Things, he confided, would be better for liberals and Democrats if the ADA faded away. And, leaving the convention to choke on its dessert, Furcolo went out to renew his campaign as "the man who repudiated...
...Rosenberg collection of Braques was also outstanding; it included a series of peaceful still lifes and such stimulating arrangements as Pink Tablecloth and Blue and Red Guitar. Matisse was represented by eight works, notably a riotously colored Odalisque with Flowers and a small, masterfully composed Open Window at Etretat. There were also excellent pictures by other artists in whose work Rosenberg has dealt: Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat and Pierre Auguste Renoir, whose appetizing La Source-an amply bosomed nude sitting beside a running fountain-showed the luscious tints and easy symbolism that make Renoir popular even with beginners...
Bypassing the sensational, Harvard's Psychological Clinic houses neither white rats nor pink elephants. Only a few experimental rooms and unique decorations distinguish it from the average Cambridge frame house. Sprawling across the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets, the laboratory now includes three antique houses and a garden fenced off from the road...