Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground to a halt-we were still the third car-Secret Service men began to pull, lead, guide, and hustle us out. I cast one last look over my shoulder and saw, in the President's car, a bundle of pink, just like a drift of blossoms, lying on the back seat. I think it was Mrs. Kennedy lying over the President's body." "God Help Us All." Later, Lady Bird found Jackie waiting outside Emergency Room One. "You always think of her-or someone like her-as being insulated, protected," said Mrs. Johnson. "She was quite alone...
...announcement that the mounted cops who had ignored Garcia's pleas for help had been suspended. The final flourish was the arrival of a delegation of East Indian women who brought a document of thanks and a pair of gold cuff links, then placed a garland of pink oleander and purple madaar flowers on the correspondent's stitched-up head...
Lower Owl, Upper Sparrow. Last week, in a new and stunning blonde wig, she was at her greatest in the pink and purple Flamingo Room at Las Vegas, appearing before a mass of abnormally hushed conventioneers, all of whom were in the palm of her hand. Ella is 46 now. Countless other singers have entered and left the scene during the span of Ella's career. A British magazine recently conducted a poll to determine the second best female singer; it was understood that the first was Ella. As a true jazz musician, she has never sung a song...
...crude-oil and product pipelines, to show oilfield areas and natural-gas fields, and to rank refinery areas by size. Besides high cartographic skill, all this called for a special printing process. For the U.S. editions, the map was printed in eight colors-yellow, magenta, green, grey, gold, pink, blue and black. To get sharper differentiation between the lines and patterns, it was printed as if it were a piece of fine art-by sheet-fed offset on heavy paper-and then was bound with the rest of the magazine, which came off rotary letter presses. For the overseas editions...
...United Nations authorization, a truck enters Mount Scopus, loads books from among the 250,000 that remain in the abandoned library, returns via the Mandelbaum Gate and takes its cargo to a striking new 250-acre campus that crowns the Judean Hills of Israel. There, in buildings made of pink limestone quarried on the site, Hebrew University is in the midst of a flourishing rebirth...