Word: pinkish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have her operas in her throat as has no other singer of her generation. She is a great piano singer, capable of purling out almost endless pianissimos of varying shades. Her Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello are wonderfully pure yet warm-not crystals, but moonstones or pinkish opals. In Andrea Chenier, when the two lovers hail the dawn and go to the guillotine together, she is as radiant and fresh as the rising sun itself...
...West Madison Street "20% California muscatel" sold briskly at 40? a pint to "winos," while around Baltimore's Market Place the "smokehounds" with red-stained hands laboriously strained alcohol through handkerchiefs from the wax in cans of Sterno (29? a can, cut-rate) and gulped the pinkish alcohol after lining their stomachs with milk. Along the nation's Skid Rows* prosperity was waxing. U.S. bums, in short, never had it so good...
...recording of Alice in Wonderland, recorded Peter and the Wolf with the Philadelphia Orchestra, did several benefits and filled various speaking engagements. "I simply drift around like flotsam and jetsam," he says with creaks and squeaks in his voice, his sad, pale eyes playing out of a square, pinkish face...
Khrushchev's prophecy that "your grandchildren in America will live under Socialism" is not ridiculous. He is observing the fast-moving events on the American political scene. The Roosevelt-Truman-Eisenhower team, aided and abetted by an increasingly pinkish Supreme Court, has catapulted America well down the road to Socialism...
Bilingual Spellbinder. No simple tribesman, Mboya bounces around the countryside in a Volkswagen. His library is studded with the works of Mark Twain, Tom Paine and Plato, and his politics have the pinkish hue of the Nye Bevan Laborites who have taken him up in Britain. He is articulate in English and a spellbinder in Swahili. Last year he toured the U.S. and returned home with $35,000 from the C.I.O.-A.F.L. to build a headquarters for his Kenya Labor Federation...