Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wright arrived in Reno the next day, learned that McCulloch was temporarily out of action, and picked up the urgent wire queries at Western Union. Says McCulloch: "When Wright arrived at the hospital to find out who he should see at the club, I was riding a Nembutal-generated, pink-hued cloud...
...five pesos each. Eventually, he earned enough money to buy a half-acre plot, donated it to the government on condition that it build a school there. He filled the school with gay murals, painted doors, benches and tables in gaudy circus colors, even did the blackboards in pink and blue...
...years, Quinquela tried to persuade the city government to let him repaint Buenos Aires' aluminum-drab trolleys and buses. Finally the city let him do one bus in pink, red, green and blue. He has been less successful in his campaign against black coffins, especially for artists, despite a telling argument: "Why should we who owe our very bread to color go to our graves in black boxes?" In his will. Colorist Quinquela has ordered that his own coffin be soft pink inside, with blue top, vermilion ends and green sides...
Green toothbrush may soon go the way of pink toothbrush. Just at the peak of the chlorophyll rage, U.S. toothpaste makers are beginning to switch to "enzyme inhibitors," developed at Northwestern University's Dental School. The new theory is that tooth decay is caused by enzymes (i.e., chemical agents produced by bacteria) turning sugars and starches into acids. Last week Lambert Co., Colgate, and Block Drug Co. were already hard at work on new anti-enzyme toothpastes, hope to have their new products on the market this fall. Said the American Dental Association: "The value of anti-enzymes . . . still...
...Pink-cheeked, brown-eyed Emma had also received visits from her parents, but they did not coerce her to return. "My mother told me that God doesn't hear me pray any more because I ran away," said Emma. "She told me my soul is in hell. It is not. I have read the Bible. I know that it isn't just the Hooks* that go to heaven, like they told us. All kinds can get there if you live right...