Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want Barry! We want Barry!" chanted the crowd of youthful men and women who filled New York City's Manhattan Center to the limit of the fire-department safety regulations. Over their heads, clouds of pink, blue and yellow balloons, each bearing the name "Barry Goldwater," were wafted through the spotlights. Before the police closed the doors. 3,200 people squeezed into the hall; another 1,000 (including 150 pickets) milled in the streets outside...
...surprise that Bui's reputation was known to Jacqueline Kennedy, who loves French cooking. But the story that the First Lady had been guilty of the unpardonable impropriety of trying to lure him away from the ambassador was as shocking as serving a sweet white wine with pink filet mignon. From London the cables buzzed with a story that Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's social secretary, had telephoned Bui one midnight last week and, in liquid French, offered him a substantial raise in pay to come to Washington and cook for the President. After 24 hours of thinking...
Just about everybody else had offered an idea for ending the civil war in Laos. Last week the most peaceable man around, King Savang Vatthana, had his try. Clad in a gold-buttoned tunic, grey pantaloons and black silk stockings, the King plucked a pink folder from atop a silver urn proffered by a kneeling courtier. In cadenced, elegant French, he read a message to "the countries of the world." Laos, he declared, was "a peaceful country, which for more than 20 years has known neither peace nor security." Savang Vatthana promised to refrain from any military alliance...
...stripling volunteers have shouldered responsibilities that would turn a grownup grey-or green with envy. In Sarawak, a 19-year-old boy, lately a factory apprentice, is in sole charge of a primary school, a first-aid clinic and a rubber plantation. In the Solomon Islands, one pink-cheeked girl recently delivered a native woman's twins. In British Guiana, a 19-year-old is the only white person within 50 miles, does everything from mending Amerindians' canoes to teaching sewing to women...
...molecular level, in order to determine the ultimate biochemical reasons for its destructive potency. This problem has taken him into many fields. From a commercial laboratory he learned that traces of iron reduce the yield of toxin. He was able to determine that the production of a pink pigment called coproporphyrin was similarly diminished by iron. This discovery in turn led him back to work he had done as a graduate student...