Word: pinkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent money like a sailor just ashore. With an expense account of about $100,000 a year, he was the town's most avid check-snatcher and tipper, its most unflagging patron of flower shops and buyer of sparkling burgundy (which he called "bubble ink"). His pinkish-blond hair was as much a trademark as his open-throat shirt, his fetish against wearing hats, ties or overcoats. "I'm a publicity hound," he told Cleveland sportwriters when he took over the Indians. And ex-Marine Bill Veeck, who had lost a leg as a result of combat injuries...
Tito led me to the dining room and seated me on his right. He helped himself to some pale pinkish wine, which he mixed with soda. "Not strong," he said, and recommended that I drink a potent-looking dark wine instead. We had noodles for our first course, and as we ate, Tito told stories. Once in the Soviet Union, he recalled, the Russians had given him a horse that nobody had ridden. With gestures, he described his mad ride, whipping through a forest, ducking branches that ripped his clothes, but never letting go until the horse was exhausted. Fascinated...
...picture barely survived the Salon's jury, an astonishing fact when we consider that Delacroix had been painting professionally for more than 20 years and was famous throughout Europe . . . Once accepted and hung, the picture created a furor . . . Delacroix had painted Trajan's horse a pinkish-rose color, which the classicists and academicians immediately decried as without precedent in nature...
After trying "more things than you can shake a stick at," Drs. Atlas and Hottle found that tryptophane (an amino acid) and perchloric acid changed the color of a solution if the virus was present. The color deepened from pinkish brown to dark brown according to the quantity of virus present; if there was no virus, the solution stayed clear. The exact strength of the virus can be fixed by using a spectrophotometer, which measures color by comparing it with a standard. The researchers have been able to make as many as 112 tests a day; normally they...
Sudden Sweat in Boston. Seldom has the gullibility and wishful thinking of pinkish academic intellectuals been so perfectly exposed as in this little book. The months Matthiessen spent in Prague were months when the Czech Communists were openly preparing for their seizure of power. Yet Matthiessen derided the idea that the Czech people faced a "loss of Czech freedom." Several months later, when he was back at Harvard and events in Czechoslovakia forced him to reconsider, he added a footnote to his book blaming the U.S. press for helping to bring on "such pressures from the Communists...