Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Staples. Just four hours after the accident, circulation was restored to the hand. From a cold pallor it turned to a warm pink, and its veins bulged with blood. Then began the far more tedious process of rejoining three nerves and 18 tendons. That the Chinese did this at once, instead of waiting weeks or months as is customary in the U.S., is considered highly significant. For the longer any part of the body is left idle, the less likely it is ever to regain full usefulness. The whole operation took seven hours. Americans say they could have clipped about...
...said a pink Heffalump. "That sounds like it could be very funny." Owl nodded sagely...
...Germany was helped mightily by Marshall Plan aid and by history; the outbreak of the Korean war gave enormous impetus to German factories. But Erhard's own role as Minister of Economics was enormous. There he was year after year, laying down the rules, then applying Seelenmassagen. The pink, chubby optimist with the big cigar, who put them first onto bicycles and motorbikes, then into Volkswagens and Mercedes's, became a hero to West Germans. Despite long and stubborn opposition from Adenauer, who considered him an economist, not a politician, Erhard became der A he's inevitable...
...herself. Considering Venice her second home, she carefully planned the details of her own Venetian palace. She revised the architect's plans for the foundation. She supervised the workmen--who had been specially imported from Italy for the project. (In fact, the walls of the court are not really pink marble: Mrs. Gardner's attempt to correct the painters produced that effect...
...years No. 8 Schleichstrasse was like any other house on the suburban Bonn hillside called Venusberg. Everything was always spick-and-span, and from the kitchen came the odor of Bavarian stew. No. 8's occupant, a chubby, rumpled man with pink bulging face and bulging briefcase, went to the office each morning, returned each evening, like so many hard-working businessmen of the district...