Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call for the building of a four-obstacle ring made up of a high metal cyclone fence, a 6-ft.-deep ditch, a highway for the exclusive use of Red patrols, and a sanitary strip some 500 yds. wide sprinkled with police watchtowers. Where buildings and trees now stand, pink hollyhocks will grow-not so much to beautify the austere scene as to provide the Communist sharpshooters with a clear line of fire...
...solution and changed daily, turn the blackish color of tarnished silver. So do doctors' and nurses' gowns and the equipment in the patients' rooms. New skin also appears black at first, but when it is strong enough to be washed, it appears a normal, healthy pink...
Hindu goddess of destruction. His newest women are even more tulip-pink tarts, slathering in sensuality and seductive danger (see opposite), and yet they have brought collectors to his doorstep, checkbook in hand...
Nanorchestes antarcticus, a species of pink mite discovered recently near the South Pole, needs no fur at all to keep warm. But Manhattan's Mary Sanford, wife of Socialite Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, winters at Palm Beach, and Florida this year has been chilly enough to turn even the minks pink. "Your jacket seems to have picked up a glow from your ruby necklace," Laddie remarked brightly to his wife at Palm Beach's Poinciana Playhouse, whereupon he learned that his wife's genuinely rosy wrap was the harbinger of a new fad for pink mink. The skins...
...Pink? No, Green. Exclusive of benefits, of course. Like the retirement plan that guarantees Namath $5,000 a year for life after his playing career ends-if it ever begins. Namath has a bad knee; he reinjured it practicing for the Orange Bowl, and it will take an operation to correct it. Werblin is springing for that too. And just to make sure Joe can transport all that money to the bank, Sonny threw in a Lincoln Continental. Reporters naturally inquired about the color. "Pink?" they asked. Uh, uh. "Jet green," said Namath smartly, and went charging on down...