Word: pinkish
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...projected five-month tour during which Elizabeth could really enjoy herself. As a herd of 30 elephants lumbered into view before sunset, she seized her husband's arm. "Look, Philip, they're pink," she whispered. The elephants, grey by birth, had been rolling in the pinkish dust of the forest. Prince and Princess delightedly snapped pictures...
...letter reports the sentiment of some Varsity Club members that Harvard has "too many mentally over-stimulated introverts and pinkish weaklings and too few good football players and all around he-men." It deplores the fact that among the 120 National Scholars in the present senior, junior, and sophomore classes, only ten have won H's (four of them in major sports), although "these scholarships almost exactly fit the boys we want...
...Sanskrit scholar and devotee of Hindu philosophy who frequently spices his brilliant conversation with quotations from Hindu scripture, Ambassador Kratochvil had become one of New Delhi's most popular diplomats. Pinkish Indian intellectuals used him as evidence that Communists were all right. But when Clementis was arrested, the ambassador's pale, haunted face (he had spent five years in Nazi concentration camps) grew a lot more haunted. To an announcer on the New Delhi radio, Kratochvil said: "Will you please announce my death when it takes place shortly...
Some of these cases involve action against individual college teachers, or the barring of single groups from college staffs. Administrators have pressured and investigated their personnel for being leftist, for belonging to organizations of a pinkish tinge. Yet, real subversives are not caught by such methods, while men with liberal tendencies are hurt and frightened. For the administrators have been unable, or unwilling to draw the line between traitors and loyal dissenters...
...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...