Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter-moon showed intermittently in the cloud-patched sky. At last the countdown dropped to seconds: ten, nine, eight . . . Finally, at exactly 11 p.m., the bomb exploded. The sky over Hawaii flared dazzling white, seemingly even brighter than noonday. The light turned pale lime green, then a delicate pink that darkened swiftly to a hideous meaty red. After seven minutes, the glow was gone, leaving the blue-black Pacific night. But when the moon next showed through the clouds, it was tinted an unnatural yellow...
...post less than a year, Ted Heath's reputation was put to the test in the ordeal of the Suez crisis. For weeks a top-to-bottom split in Tory ranks threatened to topple the government. In night after night of impassioned debate, Ted Heath's plump, pink face bobbed up wherever, as one M.P. says, "there was a soul to be saved." Convinced that it was too perilous a time for a general election, he averted that disaster almost singlehanded...
...least one new market is opening up. West German industrialists doing business in the new African states have found that Meissen vases are highly prized there. The vases are costly ($500-$1,500) and usually are decorated with goddesses cavorting among wispy pink clouds. No prudent German businessman these days would think of leaving for Africa without stowing a few in his luggage to ease his way through negotiations...
Penny Hays, in a pink and lavender dress trimmed with white lace, is absolutely ravishing as the shameless, lying wife Angelique (note Moliere's ironic use of this traditional name from Italian farce); it is easy to understand how anyone would want to seduce her, married or not. Angelique is, not to mince words, a bitch in lamb's clothing, a sort of female lago; and Miss Hays does her just right...
...snobbish in-laws, M. and Mine, Sotenville--who are indeed, as their name suggests, the town fools. Dixie Bolton puts over much of Madame's vanity and prudery; but most impressive of all is her outrageous costume: a blue and green gown, with a hat adorned by yellow, pink and blue plumes, and a black...