Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debut in Manhattan's Town Hall, Armenian-born Mezzo-Soprano Doloukhanova, 39, strode onstage aglitter with diamonds, and swathed in pink silk wrappings. Her program included Russian songs (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff), Armenian folk songs, Schubert and Strauss lieder, operatic arias from Rossini and Mozart, even one English air-Cyril Scott's Lullaby. Noted for a repertory of 500 works by 100 composers, in five different languages, she displayed a solidly centered, richly colored voice of moderate power, smooth as cream in the lower register, clear and unforced in the upper one. She was able to pay out a prodigious...
Children cheered, small flags flapped and the bars emptied as the first pink-faced line of Boston police swung unevenly down East Broadway...
...himself about unemployment problems (TIME, March 2), Mitchell was basing his rosy-pink prediction on a recent Labor Department finding on the current high unemployment rate.* The finding: as business picks up, many industrial employers are paying for overtime instead of hiring or rehiring additional workers. Reason: liberal labor contracts have added so many fringe-benefit costs to each employee that it is cheaper-up to a point-to work fewer employees overtime than to add others. For evidence, the Labor Department points out that from January 1958 to January 1959, the number of production workers employed in U.S. industry...
Title Defense. Thus did Chancellor Adenauer again assert the extraordinary control he has maintained over German political life for the past decade. Erhard, 62, pink-jowled, cigar-smoking, fast-talking "engineer of the West German economic miracle," became Vice Chancellor only 16 months ago. He had given Adenauer his winning prosperity issue and his most effective stump-speaking support and was widely regarded as the Chancellor's likely successor. But the old man, still tolerating no rivals at 83, moved suddenly and swiftly to shove his most powerful minister up to the largely honorific office that President Theodor Heuss...
...blonde relaxes across the sofa. Pink dress, pink shoes, pink toenails and pink lipstick dominate a background of blue phlox and red roses. "John," she calls. "Bring in the babies...