Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets 800 letters a day. When it's time for a Soupy Sez blackboard two-liner ("Show me a country that has only pink automobiles . . . and I'll show you a pink carnation"), fans mumble the predictable lines along with him and then fall on their heads with delight. "It's some sort of a love thing," explains his manager, who calls himself Irving Manager. Soup's humor is epidemically catching...
...pickets began to march to the Washington Monument, where they sat on the grassy sun-drenched hillside nearby. They listened intently to a series of speakers on the pink podium which is nestled among the cherry trees that bloomed here last week...
...tougher and tougher to make a living. Not that the game has declined. There are as many pool halls as ever - it's just that they like to be called les académies de billard now. No more spittoons, no more raucous voices. Tables are covered with pink felt, and ladies, bless their well-chalked tips, are taking up the game. Pool halls even hire "knockers" to protect patrons from the hustlers. "Nobody gambles any more," sighs Lassiter. The only thing left is to play other hustlers and get TV to pay the salaries. So there they...
Into the House of Representatives moved the stately procession of legislators, Government officials, honored guests. The President of the Senate, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, presiding over his first joint session, sat pink-cheeked and solemn in his chair. Speaker John McCormack, seated next to Humphrey, gazed sternly into space...
...Pope John dies; so, naturally, she allows her new friend to take her virginity. She is still further upset when he tries to inveigle her into gold smuggling. But with entire predictability, she at last saves him from himself, and the book comes to a stop in a soft pink snowbank. The novel is a skillful, showy little exhibition-but a disappointment from an author who has produced such championship performances as The Roots of Heaven and the autobiographical Promise at Dawn...