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Word: pinkness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onager is not a mule or a jackass but a rare forerunner of the donkey. One of these Iranian animals resembling a small zebra with a pink back is now at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, thanks to the cowboy tactics of Bronson M. Potter '55. Another is awaiting someone who would be willing to pay his transportation from Iran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Bulldogs Dziggetai | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...juice in their wineskins, found Dominguin easily worth his fancy fee in the opening fight. His most brilliant kill was his second. He seated himself on the ringside barrier, perilously immobile, while the big bull from Mexico's famed San Mateo ranch charged three times. His gold-and-pink "suit of lights" flashing, Dominguin followed up with a series of classic passes in mid-ring and killed the bull with a single, perfect thrust, winning both ears and the tail. By the time the killer of more than 2,000 bulls had finished off his third that afternoon, Maracay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Bullfighter's Comeback | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Supervised Pink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Brings the Renaissance to Boston | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

...began building a new home in the wastelands of the Fenway. She had designed a Venetian palace which would house all her works of art in their proper setting. During construction, Mrs. Jack closely supervised every move of the workmen. The walls of the great courtyard look like Italian pink marble because she herself climbed on the scaffolding to show the workmen just how to achieve that effect with pink and white paint. Her personality pervaded every part of the museum, said Carter, her long-time friend and Museum director since her death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Brings the Renaissance to Boston | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

...wickedness seem just about as dull as excessive virtue. A group of down-at-heel U.S. artists wasting their time and money in Guadalajara manage to be both bored and boring as they dabble with drink, dope, adultery and murder. Best feature: the exotic setting of purple trees and pink adobe walls, as vividly colorful as a Mexican travel poster. But the characters are two-dimensional poster figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Mysteries | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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