Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, "are rather pretty to look at once they are out -very similar to roughly rounded, uncut, semiprecious stones . . . [in] various shades of yellow, pink or green with red flecks. . . . Some may be microscopic in size, others as large as a hen's egg. And a patient may be suffering from just one large gallstone or from a thousand tiny ones...
...culture. For all their Germanic carousing, his companions remained good democrats. But they soon began to discern in Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink-cheeked Faculty Adviser James Hawkes became perturbed and tried to squelch his Nazi talk, Dale conceived a cordial dislike for Instructor Hawkes, became still more defiant. To the dismay of his roommate, Dale installed a bust of Hitler on his desk...
Last week sardonic Berliners wryly remembered these Hitlerian promises, as waves of British bombers roared in from the west, shuttled across the capital. This was no skimpy hit-&-run attack. For nearly five hours one night, raiders swarmed overhead, dodging and twisting through the pink-orange-white pattern of bursting anti-aircraft shells, flying through the heaviest barrage Berlin had yet thrown up. With parachute flares to light their targets, they splashed bombs on the Tempelhof railroad yards, the Moabit and Wilmersdorf power stations, an airplane-engine factory in suburban Spandau, a gas plant in Tegel. In the ruins...
...Commonwealth at the blackest hour of its history," he shouted, assailing Toryism with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power of Labor. The reconstruction of the world, he declared, must come about "through harnessing the rising masses of Labor, to whom the future really belongs." "Pink-tea diplomats" and "court-circular society" he dismissed as adjuncts of an already defunct age, while stridently demanding equality of opportunity in tomorrow's Britain. "If a boy from a secondary school can save us in a Spitfire," he declared, "the same brain can be turned to produce a new world...
...Finland Station is a shabby, grey and pink stucco building. Here trains from free Finland arrive in Leningrad. Here, on the night of April 16, 1917, arrived Vladimir Hitch Lenin. He was late: like most Russian trains, even the train bringing Lenin to the Revolution was not on time...