Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business as usual in the ICU until Felicia Potter (Kyra Sedgwick) struts into Werner's life. Felicia is confusingly shown as being a) very rich and well-bred, and b) dressed in tacky costume jewelry and embarrasingly ill-applied makeup. At any rate, she (or her charming pink-sequined miniskirt) quickly gets the attention of Dr. Ernst. Though at first it appears that Felicia is simply in need of comfort, her more complex desires soon emerge: she wants the young doctor to quietly pull the plug on her vegetative father...
Wearing black swim goggles and a pink and white bathing cap, Jiang took Waikiki Beach swimmers by surprise as he led his party into the surf and swam the breaststroke for an hour...
While trees around campus herald Fall with their annual explosion of brilliant reds, oranges and golds, Thayer gate affords passers-by a show all its own: a tangle of hot pink, neon green and electric blue flyers blanketing its stately brick frame...
...goes around and around the class, sounding words out, breaking them into phonemes, then reassembling, or "blending," them. "Cuh-ast," she says, "cast. Fuh-ill, fill." And how well are Cox's pupils learning to read and write? Earlier, one named Denise stood at the blackboard: "I like the pink flamingo..." she wrote. "Very good," said Cox. But Denise was not finished: "...because it has a long neck and it is pink." Only 72% of the third-graders in the state passed a recent reading test; for Mading the figure...
...Vividness and clarity are crucial to commenting on papers. When grading a student's paper, be sure to use only green, pink, purple or orange...