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...liquid used in the flamethrower [for training] had always been a pinkish-red in color and had a consistency similar to warm Jell-O. As we made ready for what we thought would be just another practice run, and as I filled my tanks, I saw that the liquid was not the usual Jell-O--like substance. What I was pumping was a mucus-like liquid both in color and consistency. I realized that morning that the invasion...
That is the iconic memory of Khrushchev--squat, pinkish, piggy, with glittering eyes, a survivor's cunning and an impishly brutal sense of theater. At the Vienna summit, he gave John Kennedy a famous mugging. J.F.K. came away muttering, "I never met a man like this. [I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say 'So what...
Some varieties, like the Winesap and the Maiden Blush, are antique apples with long histories. Others have become popular in recent years, like the pinkish-orange Gala, which was created by horticulturists in New Zealand who blended Golden Delicious with Kidd's Orange Red, an apple that itself is a hybrid of the British Cox's Orange Pippin and a Red Delicious. Japanese breeders crossed a Red Delicious with an heirloom variety called Ralls Janet to create the superlarge, supersweet Fuji, which ranks fifth in sales among varieties grown...
...Fortunately for most, the virus is fatal in less than 1% of cases, although its symptoms?blinding headaches, spiraling fever and extensive body rash?can make death look attractive. Doctors sometimes confuse a dengue case with ordinary flu (the sensitive, pinkish rash is often the best indicator of dengue). But the worst suffering rarely lasts more than a week. Treatment consists of little more than bed rest and nonaspirin painkillers...
...naked”. Not exactly the color I see when I’m naked, but whatever, no need to get testy. My eye rapidly scans the color chart to find that the “darkest” color listed is a pinkish-sandy brown called “caramel...