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Word: pinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pink icing, of course. . . . Californians know that the flavor is raspberry, and that there are nuts in the cake as well. It is also stale, in the opinion of most people who have tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Last week, with his first steady piano-playing job in 30 years, Jimmy Yancey, a month shy of 50 and all but seven teeth gone, was happy among the pink lights and mirrors. His salary is the union wage -$87.50 a week; but sometimes customers send up a free drink to him, and he thanks them kindly for it. Jimmy hopes to keep right on playing "as long as they want me." He doesn't mind what he has missed. "I'm doin' fine," says he in his slow, lazy way. "At the old bear trap they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Long As They Want Me | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Lunge, parry, thrust. For 19 years Coach Rene Perey has been grooming undergrads in how to pink their opponents most gracefully and efficiently in the age-old art of fencing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/6/1948 | See Source »

Whitney: "In the pink. I don't need to ask how you are-you're looking great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: You Know Me, Al | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...bluebooks were dealt out at her first exam, she extracted the standard tools from the pocket of her blue jeans--pen, pencils, eraser, postcard. Then, unwrapping a dainty, paper-sheathed parcel, she laid on her writing board a spoon, a pink cup and saucer, a small white packet of sugar, a pink napkin. Beside, them she stood a thermos of piping hot coffee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pen, Pencil Not Adequate For, Exams, 'Cliffer Shows | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

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