Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slight, pink-cheeked Robert E. Gross, board chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (prime contractor on the Navy Polaris), registered the common complaint that Government agencies, bureaus, committees, staffs and boards interfere with quick and able decisionmaking. Contractors, he declared, are "bogged down in a labyrinth of advisers advising advisers ... We are often 'helped to death' by the hierarchy of Government agencies." Conflict-of-interest statutes defeat the Government's opportunities to hire the most able civilians for key posts. "We really cannot ask people to come down to Washington as experts for a problem as long...
...previous week in 1958). Automakers slashed first-quarter production schedules by 13% from the total projected a few weeks ago. In the slowdown more than 9% of Detroit's work force was idle. General Motors has laid off about 6,000; Chrysler last week passed out 4,000 pink slips and more were coming...
...years of steeping himself in antiquity, Britain's Novelist-Poet Robert (I, Claudius; The Greek Myths) Graves had never been to Rome. Last week, resplendent in a white formal evening shirt, pink tie and embroidered gold vest, Traveler Graves, 62, long based on the Mediterranean isle of Majorca, finally made his first appearance on the scene of many of his writings. To the dismay of Roman antiquarians, he refused to go near the Colosseum or other ruins: "Why should I visit ruins when the shops are so good?" In high good humor, he recalled a fanciful previous visit...
...little Madonna was a poor thing. She was made of plaster, and her face was blank and pink. In the shapeless, pudgy fingers of her right hand she held a bleeding heart limned in red and gold. She was exactly like hundreds of other foot-high, hollow, plaster Madonnas that the Sicilian factory sold for $3, and like many of them she was a wedding present-to Antonietta and Angelo lannuso of Syracuse. Soon after they got the present in the spring of 1953, the commotion began...
...Haven't I always treated you as a human being?" splutters Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), the parlor pink. "Most certainly not!" gasps Butler Crichton (Kenneth More), the pantry tyrant. "Your treatment to me has always been as it should be." When Lord Loam insists, Crichton persists: "Any satisfaction I might derive from being equal [to my master] would be ruined by the footman being equal...