Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall registration each student is presented with two pastel-colored strips of cardboard, salmon for freshmen, buff for sophomores, pink for juniors, white for seniors and yellow for graduate students. On them he must write his name 13 times, his college address 11 times, home address nine times and telephone number seven times. In addition, he has to give his parent's or guardian's name four times and his marital status twice...
Love from All. On Wednesday Mrs. Dunbar received a telegram from a suburb of Montreux. "Unforeseen circumstances have arisen," it read. "Am staying here longer. Please advise school boys returning about a week's time. All extremely well. Pink Rose in marvelous form. Love from all, Melinda." Pink Rose was once the pet name for little Melinda (who was born after her father faded away). Detectives found that the wire, written in a hand completely unlike Mrs. MacLean's, had been filed by a large, heavily rouged woman. A few days later the MacLean Chevrolet was found...
...wore the pink coat of a Master of Fox Hounds at officers' hunts...
Bewildered Innocence. The prize catch of the high Sierra hunt, a bloated, pink-haired man whose oversized pants were held up by a money belt stuffed with $50 bills, was a study of bewildered innocence. He produced drivers' licenses identifying himself as one John Francis Brennan. But the FBI men tagged him on the spot with a fingerprint test as Robert Thompson, one of the eleven top Communist leaders who were convicted in 1949 of violation of the Smith Act. Two years ago, ordered to report to begin his three-year penitentiary term, he jumped bail, disappeared into...
...colors are jewel-bright: a many-headed demon is emerald green; Ganesh, the God of Success, is a pink elephant dancing on a jet black mouse with ruby eyes; sphinxlike maidens are sapphire blue and brick red. When Roy wants to, he can also turn out quick line drawings that catch precisely the pinched, ascetic face of a Hindu priest or the sweeping curves of a nude girl combing her hair...