Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pink & White Facade...
CHICAGO'S OAK STREET BEACH LIFEGUARDS DO NOT WEAR SHOCKING-PINK TRUNKS [TIME, JULY 26] . . . GUARDS ARE WEARING SWIM SUITS OF GANTROM, A LUMINESCENT, HIGH VISIBILITY FABRIC THAT CAN BE SEEN FOR TWO MILES. FOR YOUR INFORMATION COLOR IS NEON
There were many in Japan who claimed they had heard the noise or knew a friend who had, but to be really sure a poet had to go by dawn to the side of a Tokyo swamp and sit for three long hours while the pink and white blossoms unfold, waiting tensely for the moment when the bud burst open to the morning light. It took a discerning ear to separate the sound of an opening lotus from the purl of a fish lazily waking to his morning meal or the plip of a dewdrop on a mossy stone...
...fishing village of Katakalon, the night before, officers of the Greek (ex-British) destroyer Hastings had invited British officials and Anglo-American newsmen to an "Olympic torch party" in a restaurant. The party was gay. Lieut. Colonel John Casey, a pink-faced, ginger-mustached member of the British mission, was singing a Greek ballad, Mavra Matya (Black Eyes) when a burst of Communist machine-gun fire thudded into the building. One gendarme was killed trying to douse the lights; the others got down under the tables. Casey went on singing in the darkness to cover the departure of two Greeks...
Twas a saucy business surely, and one that, in an older time, might well have put County Donegal up in arms and stained the waters of Lough Swilly pink with men's blood. Yonder they came, eight men of England's navy and that same young duke that married the king's daughter, strolling bold as brass into free Eire. "We want a navy snack," says they, marching into the Green Bay at Buncrana. "We want a typical navy snack, with plenty of steak and chips and don't say nothin' to anyone about...