Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five cups of tea, two cups of coffee, a few crackers, part of a chocolate bar. His output: upwards of 100,000 words on subjects ranging from offshore oil (the matter under debate) to horseback riding, to baloney (the edible kind). When his self-imposed ordeal was over, the pink rose in the lapel of Morse's dark blue suit was withered, but 52-year-old Maverick Morse himself was still sprightly enough to chat with reporters and pose smilingly for photographers before going to his office for a three-hour...
...first two days of his Southern vacation, President Eisenhower spent every spare hour on the golf course. His face turned pink with sunburn, his appetite sharpened, and after 18 holes with last year's National Amateur Champion Jack Westland (now a Republican Congressman from Everett, Wash.), word leaked through the golf-score security curtain that Ike stood a good chance of breaking 90 before the week...
There are reasons. At their lowest, U.S. wages seem high to the Mexican border jumper. And in recent years, poor men in all corners of Mexico have heard dazzling tales of the wonders and luxuries to be had in los Estados Unidos-canned chicken soup, pink nylon panties to be taken home to wives and girl friends, sweet paste (wonder of wonders) for scrubbing the teeth, and the little brush to squirt it on. Many a wetback, returning to a small Mexican village, has been hailed as a hero, and has been trailed by every able-bodied man in town...
Eternal Spirit. For last week's show, Old Dada-Daddy Marcel Duchamp had hung some of Dada's best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution...
...system is completely compatible (i.e., the telecast in color which the committee saw was received in black & white on regular receivers in homes in the New York area). Viewers can also control color intensity (a flick of the brightness knob can change red to pink), while those who weary of watching color can switch back to black & white by another turn of the knob...