Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday: I did it. She will come. I think she is a great pink god. Do not know much about goddesses. Don't be afraid. Schnieder put his hand on my shoulder. Good...
Vigorous opposition to atmospheric testing has confined itself to far-left groups and organizations which have been successfully labelled as visionary. Everyone knows that Pauling and the Society of Friends, if not pink, are at least somewhat odd. Except in such odd places as Cambridge, Massachusetts, therefore, agitation against tests has been negligible...
Just to make sure he always knows who he is, the Zinacanteco dresses in his own distinctive, unique, and (to Western eyes) out-fashion. All the men wear short pants, even in the coldest weather. They all wear the red and white striped shirts and pink tasseled scarves their wives weave for them. And to top it off, they all wear flat- brimmed straw sombreros dangling hosts of long multi-colored ribbons behind them...
...Adolphe Juviler of New York and Palm Beach, who explained that they wanted to be freer to travel. Their treasures were a choice, if uneven, selection of modern paintings, sculpture and drawings, and it had both Parke-Bernet's main gallery (white tickets) and TV annex (pink tickets) jammed to overflowing. The bidding was brisk: a curt nod, a quick wave of a pencil, an almost imperceptible gesture with a finger-the secret semaphore of auctioneering-would send the bidding up anywhere from $100 to $5,000. When the auctioneer had exhausted every other trick...
Jacqueline Kennedy has painted the White House state dining room a gleaming white and gold (it had been what decorators politely call an "Eisenhower pink"), the University has set little colored tiles into the gray walls of the new Health Center, and even Life magazine looks different, but the Brattle Theatre, whatever its program, still plays its one mournful record of brass canzone, of all things, by Gabrielli, of all people...