Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canned Patriotism. New College has an option on 60 waterfront acres, including its first building - a 20-room, pink marble mansion built in 1927 by Circusman Charles Ringling, which adjoins the famed public art museum founded by Ringling's brother John. Using this nucleus, the trustees plan an eventual 200-acre campus, designed by top U.S. architects. Hiss himself is donating his own home for President Baughman...
Lovely Mary, the wife, is, as her brother Pink observes, "the most vulnerable thing on two legs." Since her husband has in effect withdrawn from her, she and Brother Pink live in a private world, have a private vocabulary and are as sensitive to each other's moods as twin fawns...
...little man, pink-checked and wearing a natty seersucker jacket, Goodman stirred things up for a while, and quietly stole out of town yesterday early in the morning, to return to New York and continue his war against the Organized System...
...mamma. At home in Argentina, Celia has long been an all-wool Communist herself, but hampered by individualistic tendencies. She often ate with a pistol on the table, and, before she separated from Ernesto Sr.. sometimes used the weapon to threaten her husband, whose policies were only parlor pink. Somehow the leaders of Argentine Communism never got around to giving Celia the leading role in the movement she felt she deserved...
...martinis (while Conrad "held the vermouth a bit downwind"). With Painter playing the harmonica and Conrad the guitar, the children sang till suppertime and then climbed into their sleeping bags. On other days, the Painters and Conrads walked among the ponderosa pine and the aspen trees, past berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water birds, the chit-chatter of squirrels...