Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the microscope, blood from a victim of malaria is as vivid as a southern sunset. In mild malaria, the red blood cells appear speckled with pink. In violent forms of the disease, the corpuscles darken to dusky copper, mottled with purple. These changing hues show the progress of the fight between invading malarial parasites and the body's defending blood cells...
...voters mulled over many a Governor (33) this week, but when all the mulling was over, the score (barring late upsets) remained exactly as before: 19 Democrats, 14 Republicans. Some of the hotter contests: ^-Illinoisans, chronically pink-eyed from blinking at politicians, found their new Governor, Republican Dwight Herbert Green, a sight for sore eyes. The upstanding, good-looking, grey-haired former...
...thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again when half the first opera company promptly died of yellow fever. There were also malaria, hookworm, poisonous insects...
...represented a woman's abdomen. Inside, homemade in pink and red, were models of all the organs involved in childbirth. The pelvic cavity was an oval fruit basket. The walls of the box, as well as the pelvis, were covered with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached...
...Pink-cheeked, bushy-browed Maestro Walter Damrosch, 78, built a baton-swinging cardboard effigy of Wendell Willkie at his Manhattan house, summoned musicians to see it. Putting politics before mythology, he crowed: "We are going to elect Willkie the conductor of 130,000,000 people for four years. ... He is playing the music from Wagner's opera Siegfried, in which Siegfried comes to awaken Brünnehilde, who has been asleep for eight years...