Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he has since turned right and always did deny that he was a Communist Party member, ex-pinko Mr. Lash did not look like quite the fellow the Navy wanted in its very hush-hush intelligence office. It turned him down...
Full of the eager anticipation which all playgoers (except dramatic critics) share, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt taxied up to New York's Mansfield Theater. With her were her secretary, Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson and a onetime youth leader, pinko Joe Lash. The play they had come to see: In Time to Come. As Mrs. Roosevelt stepped out of her cab, to her horror she came face to face with a picket line...
Labor's representatives: A.F. of L. 's President William Green, C.I.O.'s President Philip Murray, John Lewis, pinko Sailor-man Joseph Curran; A.F. of L.'s John Coyne, John Frey, George Meany, Dan Tobin, Matthew Woll; C.I.O.'s R. J. Thomas, Emil Rieve, Julius Emspak...
...subscribe to and read both the pinko New Republic and the stinko TIME...
...difference in adjectives is that pinko is descriptive of political coloration and stinko is just a term of reproach...