Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poor Women. At last, the presidential party arrived. As the President and Mrs. Kennedy stepped into the elevator that was to take them one flight up to the West Hall, the elevator operator panicked. The sight of Jackie Kennedy, elegantly coifed and exquisitely draped in a pink strapless creation, was perhaps too much for the man. In any event, his thumb froze on the STOP button, the elevator never got off the ground, and the Kennedys finally decided to walk upstairs...
Just after sunup one day last week, Secessionist Moise Tshombe slipped out of his pink palace in Elisabethville, climbed into the back seat of a black Comet sedan, and sped off down the road toward the Northern Rhodesian border. Soon an armored column of 500 United Nations troops was on his tail. For a moment, it looked as if the U.N. were in hot pursuit of its old foe. But no! To the astonishment of bug-eyed natives along the way, Moise was actually leading the blue helmets, urging his own tattered Katangese gendarmes to lay down their arms...
...armed with pink tickets and show cause why-And you better be ready with a quick reply...
...because they're so vulnerable to changes in the weather," says Harding), mules, ponies, lions, tigers, monkeys, walruses ("We lost two of those damn things"), seals, elephants, gazelles and giraffes ("We have to make certain that their necks aren't bent during shipment"). They once insured a pink porpoise ("He survived nicely"), and they currently have a four-month policy on a pair of white rhinos at $5,000 each...
...President's heady words were relayed to the crowd through an interpreter. But such was not the case when Jackie. dressed in a pink sheath, stepped to the microphones. In excellent Spanish and a firm and confident voice, she praised the Cubans and said: "I feel proud that my son has known the officers. It is my wish and my hope that some day he may be a man at least half as brave as the members of Brigade...