Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the addition of a second checkout desk, lines clog the lobby at the 9 p.m. signout hour, and the student who has already checked out his books must wait for a pink-card inspection just to get out of the building...
Bullets raked his 320 lean and hilly acres, killed a hog, a mule and a dog, and pinked daughter Zola's left ear. Webb thought it best to go away for awhile. For two years he worked in Hamilton, Ohio, and made his name there slashing off a man's ear in a fight. He came back often, disguised sometimes in his 80-year-old mother's pink bonnet and skirts. This spring he thrust away all fear and came home for good. "They run me home, and that...
Paralyzing Pygmies. As the Martian invasion of France proceeded, the invaders became more bizarre. A troup of pygmies in plastic helmets gamboled down a railroad track near Quarouble and transfixed M. Marius Dewilde with "a paralyzing beam of light." Some Martians were blue, others were yellow or pink. A traveling salesman of the Cotes-du-Nord saw a wonderful sight: a deep rose flying cigar from which stepped a zebra-striped Martian. As he alighted, he changed color, chameleonlike, from yellow to green...
Next day Hollywood almost returned to normal. Marilyn was back on the set of The Seven Year Itch in pink pajamas, going through "one of the funniest scenes in the movie" with Actor Tom Ewell. Despite her heartbreak, said a studio pressagent, "the show must go on." "Why?" asked a newsman. Answered the pressagent: "We're $50,000 and three days behind production on the picture already...
...Dellera, 2nd Class airman at Bedford Airport, had parked his pink 1952 Ford in the alley at approximately 10:30 p.m., on his way home from a hunting trip. Dellera returned 20 minutes later, after taking a walk along the Charles with a girl friend and her collie dog, who had been with...