Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good, grey Captain Cordell Hull last week waited for a tide, backed the ship of U.S. relations with Vichyfrance off the pink granite rocks of St. Pierre & Miquelon, where it had almost gone to pieces...
...carnation-pink William Knudsen made one of his simple we-can-do-the-job speeches, punctuated by the sees with which he likes to end sentences. OPM announced that it wanted the industry to double its scheduled 1942 arms output to $5,000,000,000, that it would set up a joint management-labor board to speed conversion. The Army & Navy announced that they had $5,000,000,000 worth of orders for the industry to take over immediately...
...Axis-minded military pals, is unlikely to come around to a cooperative point of view. Nazi pressure, which is reported to have taken the form of a direct note promising retribution and economic ruin for any nation which has not "behaved discreetly" at Rio, has more influence in the Pink House than in any other Latin American capitol. As long as United States beef interests insist that Argentine steers have hoof-and-mouth disease, for one small example, the Republic will be dependent on Europe for its existence...
...with cold and have nothing of the conquering race about them. These Germans are dressed in thin great coats and tunics. They have no sweaters or only light ones and standard, unlined German service boots. Often they have no gloves. Sometimes they wear women's skirts or little pink and white striped jumpers or wool panties drawn over their trousers. All that is bad for the prim Prussian morale. The first thing that many Muscovites do in the morning is to rush to the thermometer and joyously call to their families: 'Twenty below; good for the Germans...
...night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain. But at dawn they hove to off the salmon-pink igneous rockland of St. Pierre & Miquelon, last island remnants of the once-great French Empire in North America...