Word: pinkish
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...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...
...Cigarette Problem. The poverty with which the book deals is more comic than tragic. Hero Gordon Comstock is bone-poor, not because he is genuinely down-and-out, but because a pinkish bee in his bonnet tells him that it is nobler to half-starve than surrender to what he calls "the money-code." A poet of sorts (he has published a slim volume entitled Mice), Gordon has not got much farther because he is usually too cold and hungry even to hold a pencil. Gordon's conscience allows him to earn about ten dollars a week as salesman...
...painters, was indeed candid. Ordinary Britons, seeing in black-and-white press photographs a gross, jut-jawed Churchill, shorn of his feet and plainly showing the tracery of age, bombarded their newspapers with outraged protests. But the critics, after a leisurely look, generally approved of its color harmonies: the pinkish paleness of face and hands, the rich black of the clothes, and the strangely appropriate tarnished golden background. Decreed the Times: "A powerful, penetrating image...