Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last December, Emma Miller, 18, stole out of her parents' house, wearing a sinful pink blouse and a blue skirt. She got a lift into town and eventually found a job as a houseworker. One Sunday afternoon last month, her friend Anna Yoder, 18, turned up at Emma's apartment in an Amish bonnet and with a yen to cut loose, too. "I cut her hair and washed . . . and set it," said Emma. "I put makeup on her and dressed her in my clothes...
...Baldy the Chinese displayed big cardboard Picasso "peace doves," ran up red, yellow and pink flags, and erected on the crest a huge sign proclaiming "celebration for the signing of the armistice." While G.I.s ogled. Chinese and North Korean girls, in pigtails and with slacks rolled above the knee, sang plaintive songs into hillside microphones and invited their audience to "come on over and talk...
When Shirley was given the Academy Award as the best film actress of the year, there was scarcely a dissenting voice. She went to Manhattan's International Theater wearing a blush-pink Valentina dress, specially cut so there would be no danger of her tripping on the steps to the stage. With millions watching on television, Shirley tripped anyway. But she managed to make it look likably human...
...transmitting tower put up on his Leesburg, Va. farm just behind the chicken coop, this week returned to the radio & television faithful the freckled face and barefoot voice of Arthur Godfrey, in the pink, but still on crutches after his celebrated Boston hip operation...
...said, "is trying to put over a new type of teacher training which might .wreck the academic . . . future of a lot of our kiddies." As for the Ford Foundation, it too was suspect: its former president, Paul Hoffman, had caused no end of trouble backing a UNESCO teaching program. "Pink Socialism." cried the paper. "Hoffman is out of the Ford Foundation, but his spirit is still there...