Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the Times decided it had had enough: it ran a story about this fall's fashions long before the press-week release date. Pink with rage, the Couture Group sent "pledge cards" to editors, asking them to observe the release rules. When the Times refused to sign, it was barred from the group's style shows. Unperturbed, Elizabeth Howkins tapped private sources, last week ran a story about next spring's styles (heavy on geometric designs, skirts like "deflated melons"). "It's ridiculous," said Editor Howkins, "to observe such release rules." To that, newsmen...
...first job was to restore the blood flow, thus restore some life to the limb. Before cleaning the leg fully, they stitched together the ends of the main artery, then the main vein. Quickly taking circulation from the trunk, the leg turned from a deathly grey to a normal pink. Then the surgeons cut away the crushed muscle and skin, shortened the bone by two inches (to make up for the lost tissue), sewed...
...birds wailed like banshees at the egg snatchers, then promptly laid some more. In desperation, the Navy packed some gooneys into planes, hauled them to far-off Guam, to Kwajalein, to northern Japan, even to Puget Sound-4,000 miles away. Unerringly, the gooneys, thoughtfully marked with a shocking-pink head dye for identincation, flew back to Midway. And the Navy learned that nothing smells up a plane more pungently than a load of airsick gooneys...
...result of the draws, the 'fifties had a race against the Crowland Rowing Club when the Regatta opened on July 1st. Like the rest of the week's four racedays, the first day saw the sort of weather which made this summer England's best of the century. The pink and white blazers, the school stripped caps, and the garden-party dresses which always decorate Henley during the Regatta were for once in harmony with the climate. The redcoatted band, the funfair, and the bars were all operating at full tilt as the first shells glided past the green riverbanks...
...order, Lynch said it was a known fact Russia spends at least $4 million per year for subversion, and "the reaction of pink adjuncts of the communist apparatus to [the Council's original motion against the Khrushchev trip] evidenced the lavish expenditure of funds for subversion in this city...