Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Millions of Latin Americans last week saw the President of the U.S., arms flung wide in greeting, flower petals stuck to his pink and sweating scalp, a delighted grin on his face, as he rode down stately boulevards, through exotic cities, among multitudes of strange people. And somehow, whenever he made contact with the people, Dwight Eisenhower's radiant personality touched the Latinos, and the millions cheered. In the warmth of the uproarious welcome for the norteamericano President, old animosities and old suspicions melted perceptibly...
Into the red and green conference room of Greater Miami Beach's Americana Hotel stepped pink and grey President George Meany for the annual midwinter huddle of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council last week-and he forthwith boomed out a judgment that may haunt him for months...
...talent in taxidermy. Tiny Mrs. Foster, on the other hand, has a soft and rather silly look and shows agitation only when fearing she may miss a train or plane. Hearty Miss Roach is grand fun at country weekends, and her skill at games is evidenced by her large pink face, broad shoulders and bulging calves...
...Aphrodites' magnificent "country house" had an altar of love gods and goddesses and pink, taffeta-lined boxes for private love sessions, each fitted out with ingeniously placed peepholes. A journal of one of the female Aphrodites lists 4,959 amorous rendezvous in 20 years. This included 272 princes and prelates, 929 officers, 93 rabbis, 342 financiers, 439 monks, 420 socialites, 119 musicians, 47 Negroes and 1,614 foreigners ("during an enforced absence in London...
...tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness. The ballet had some stunning virtuoso bits: a pas de ruban running like a thread through the first two scenes, m which the lovers reel each other in and out of elaborate cats' cradles of pink rib bon; a scene-setting dance by a "cock and four rumpled "hens," whose strutting absurdities are closely modeled on th fowl Ashton observes at his Suffolk country home ("La Fille is my poor man's Pastoral Symphony...