Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typhus and Typhoid. Carried by the louse and the rat-flea is Rickettsia prowazeki, a tiny organism which causes the dirty pink eruptions, burning fever and wild delirium of typhus fever. Prevention is simple: "no lice, no typhus." Also louse-borne is trench fever, a milder relative of typhus, which made its first appearance in World...
Three years ago, at 55, Tip Reynolds started a newspaper. Printed on a violent, near-red shade of newsprint, the Pink Reporter turned out to be a two-fisted, name-calling, muckraking fortnightly. Tip Reynolds first fell afoul of the law when he went after John E. Kennedy, secretary to ex-Congressman Jerry O'Connell (who is now himself a "liberal" publisher). Charged with criminal libel, punishable in Montana by a $5,000 fine or a year in jail, Editor Reynolds hid out for a while in the hills, finally showed up, printed a retraction, and the charges were...
Lately the Pink Reporter had heckled Governor Roy Ayers, who took office four years ago with the blessing of Montana's powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Co. A mild-mannered Lewistown lawyer and Democrat, Governor Ayers enjoys a drink as much...
Highway patrolmen guarded the pop-bottle-littered lawn all night; at 7:30 a.m., pink and rested, Mr. Farley (who neither smokes nor drinks) nodded at guests drinking bourbon hot toddies, went in to breakfast on grapefruit-and-strawberries, broiled Tennessee ham, hominy grits, scrambled eggs, hot waffles with sorghum, coffee and tiny hot biscuits...
...Tall, pink-faced Postmaster General Farley has been doggedly loyal to Franklin Roosevelt ever since pre-Albany days. He has never forgotten that without Franklin Roosevelt's good will he might yet be a saloonkeeper's son who was doing fairly well as a gypsum salesman. As the President's whipping-boy throughout the early New Deal years, Mr. Farley endured much, worked hard, remained financially in debt until he sold his memoirs to the American Magazine for $65,000.* His dream was simple and sublime: to succeed Mr. Roosevelt as President...