Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor William Allen White is no admirer of Ohio's pink-cheeked Governor John W. Bricker ("An honest Harding. Thumbs down!"). Individualist White has never cared for teeming mobs. Now Editor White put both dislikes together. Plump Governor Bricker had finally plumped for internationalism (TIME, July 5). Veteran Internationalist White eyed the swelling crowd of internationalists, was suddenly seized with ochlophobia. In his famed Emporia, Kans. Gazette, Editor White fumed his way through a maze of metaphors toward the nearest exit...
...burly, red-headed, pink-faced mass of a man from Marlboro, Mass, is probably the only professional athlete in the heterogenious group that makes up the psychology specialists in McKinlock Hall. A former Holy Cross star, he played his first season of professional ball last year with Alexis Thompson's Philadelphia Eagles...
...Pink-cheeked, twinkling Biologist Bissonnette is one of the world's leading authorities on photoperiodicity - the study of the effect of light on animals' and plants' seasonal cycles. The earliest application of this science, so far as he knows, was by Spanish peasants who in 1602 used torchlight to stimulate hens' egg-laying. Poultrymen used to believe that the reason artificial light improved hens' production was that it made them eat and exercise more. But Professor Bissonnette showed that the light itself stimulates laying...
Franklin Roosevelt had a chipper, assured look. Speaking in short, clipped sentences, curt as a communique, the U.S. Commander in Chief* informed the press (two and a half hours after reporters heard the news by radio) that Pantelleria had fallen. Then he turned to his typed, pink-paper notes, suddenly abandoned war talk for a suave, new role: Chief of United Nations Propaganda...
...reasoning was simple and logical. Gov ernment agencies do 10.001 jobs, from building battleships to advising farmers about the pink bollworm. But they all do one thing in common: spend money. A Budget Bureau should be in an ideal position to survey and coordinate the whole activity of the Government, inquiring into purposes and projects, checking performances, uncovering and eliminating extravagance, duplication, confusion...