Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second oldest ballet (the oldest: The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master, which beat La Fille to the stage in 1786). In its present incarnation, La Fille not only provides the Royal Ballet with its biggest smash of the season but brilliantly demonstrates the versatility of a convivial, pink-cheeked, 53-year-old ex-R.A.F. officer-Choreographer Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton...
...Sidney J. Ungar, a longtime pal and Tammany Democrat, had picked up the $4,400 tab. It was not a gift. Jack insisted, merely a friendly loan without note or collateral. But it just so happened that while Ungar was paying to have Jack's bedroom painted orchid pink, he was also seeking city approval of a $30 million slum clearance project-and Hulan Jack, as borough president, held the right of veto. Ungar's project got the green light until early last year, when newspapers identified would-be Slum Clearer Ungar as the owner of some...
Incense for Paw. At Oxford, Ronald Knox was briefly "infected" with the impediment of Fabian socialism. He shortly parodied his drawing-room-pink period...
...Sixth Army "for gallantry under fire." When Japan's touring Premier Nobusuke Kishi asked him if he had learned Japanese during the war, Lacson snapped, "I was too busy shooting at Japanese to learn any." Of Americans, he says: "They live in fear of Communism, B.O., halitosis, pink toothbrush and their own unpopularity...
First he designated most of the capital's West End section as "Pink Zone" (nonparking towaway area) for the holidays. It was shocking pink to householders, who believe that an Englishman's castle extends at least to his curb. But housewives agreed it made their Christmas shopping the easiest in years. By last week Marples was taking measures to give him more direct control over traffic police and to build vast garages under Hyde Park, increase traffic fines, rebuild roads. Most of his proposals, though shocking to the British, are old remedies...