Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lake Manyara, off in Tanganyika, an echoing gunshot stirs a huge, pink sea of flamingos into an undulating wave of flutter as they rise and settle once again. Down the corrugated road in a rumbling Land Rover come the white hunters, and once again the pink wings billow brightly in the sun. And then impatient stillness falls once more and muffles the lake...
...going to a department store. I haven't dared go near one in years." But the anonymity is not likely to last. After a difficult day, Gleason issued from his penthouse at the George V looking, in spotless maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music Hall, where his jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk routine. Later, he joked with French Clown Jacques Tati...
Precisely at 10:15, the President and his lady descended the stairs to the entrance hall. Jackie had on a sleeveless, floor-length sheath of pink and white straw lace, wore just one piece of jewelry: a feather-shaped diamond clip in her bouffant hair. At a signal, the Marine Band's dance orchestra in the East Room struck up Mr. Wonderful; Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird joined the Kennedys in leading the first dance. Afterward, Jack stood at one end of the ballroom greeting guests while Jackie toured the floor with a battalion of successive...
...Europe with a mixture of sex and carefully documented exposés of officers abusing their rank. According to the Overseas Weekly, Walker was stuffing his troops with the rightist rantings of Birch Society Founder Robert Welch, once made a public speech in which he called President Truman "definitely pink" and TV's Edward R. Murrow a "confirmed Communist." A man of towering temper, Walker was so enraged when he heard of Murrow's appointment as director of the U.S. Information Agency that his staff officers feared to go near...
...pink curtains of the Elysée Palace's Salle des Fêtes parted, and a veteran performer stepped out to play a familiar, lordly role. Jauntily, Charles de Gaulle waved his arm at the 800 newsmen, adjusted his glasses and looked nearsightedly around for the first question. When it proved to be about Algeria, he quipped: "Now there's a question one might call pertinent." He beckoned a few more questions in, snapped "That's enough," and launched into a statement on Algeria. "The whole world is waiting," he said...