Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applause greeting Schmid's announcement was cut short by long, lean Max Reimann, one of the two Communists elected to the assembly. His suit, shirt and tie were a symphony in grey. From a pink sheet of paper he read: "I wish to put forward this resolution: It is resolved that this assembly halt its deliberations on a separate West German constitution and disband immediately. This assembly violates the agreements of Yalta and Potsdam...
...birthday. In fact, she began her reign with an act of independence. Wilhelmina's daughter would have none of the orange marigolds which bloom everywhere in floral tribute to the House of Orange. For her formal inauguration, Queen Juliana ordered Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk banked instead with pink begonias...
...Pink." She sometimes has artistic disputes with the dealers, who have their own ideas of what a painting by the country's best-known "primitive" should look like. When Grandma paints a picture that seems not quite in character, her dealers sadly send it back. One such reject hanging over her mantel shows a sunset above a Western canyon, with a log cabin in the foreground. "What one likes," says Grandma philosophically, "another don't." Another of her favorite rejects is a storm scene, with black clouds lowering in a pink sky. "Dr. Kallir [one of her dealers...
...result, which cast its shadow over Budapest last week, was probably far superior to the pink marble monuments the Reds have been building in Berlin, and certainly surpassed the obelisks, as characterless as paperweights, with which they have dotted Eastern Europe in the past two years. Instead of a tank, or a bust of Stalin, it featured a high-breasted, neoclassic lady holding a king-size palm leaf 42 feet above her bare bronze toes...
Keedoozle means "key does all." It was-coined by Saunders' fertile brain-the same brain that thought up Piggly Wiggly, twice made and lost a million-dollar fortune (and a pink marble palace in Memphis). Now a white-haired 67, Clarence Saunders is sure that he has hit the jackpot again. Keedoozle's lavor-saving, he says, will enable hin. to make 7½% on his turnover without adding more than a 3? markup to the cost of any goods. Says Saunders, who will sell Keedoozle franchises in other cities: "It can't miss...