Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic cathedral in honor of Argentine Liberator José de San Martin, whose tomb is in the church. But instead of dropping flowers, the plane loosed two dark objects that hurtled downward toward President Juan Perón's headquarters, the block-long Casa Rosada (Pink House) standing at the other end of the plaza...
...fortnight later, new symptoms began to show. The patients' dark skins grew darker in patches and rose up in leathery plaques. Sometimes the skin peeled away, leaving white or pink tissue. Deeper burns wept and formed crusts. When burns were on the scalp (70% of all individuals), the hair came out by the handful...
...Farm. The purchase was the latest in a long series of successful changes made by the Farm Journal's Graham Patterson, 73, a good-humored, pink-cheeked publisher who ran the Christian Herald before he took over Farm Journal in 1935. Patterson watches his health as closely as he watches his magazine, keeps fit with frequent bowls of oatmeal, always sprinkled with a laxative which he carries with him wherever he goes. Once in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a friend approached tiny (5 ft. 3¾ in.) Publisher Patterson and prankishly asked whether the grits...
Into the U.S. Senate's buff-and-marble caucus room one day last week marched the New York Central Railroad's pink-and-silver Robert R. Young. Railroader Young was there to answer the questions of a Senate Banking subcommittee investigating the recent rash of proxy battles. The Senate subcommittee, headed by Wall Street Alumnus Herbert H. Lehman, wanted Bob Young to explain just how he had managed to win control of the $2 billion New York Central last year, and especially how he made his big deal whereby Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson cast...
...stars in the history of the theater have been so modest; yet Gwen Verdon is far from humble. She knows her ability, studies and practices her art constantly and, though she is impulsively zany enough to dye her white cat's tail pink on the spur of the moment, she takes her professional life with utter seriousness. Riding the wave crest of her first big success, modest Gwen Verdon gives herself only five more years as a dancer. But the suddenly astute showmen of Broadway and Hollywood seem little inclined, at the moment, to let her rest her talented...