Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three thousand desert dervishes in flowing abbayas streamed into town on camels, horses and rickety provincial trains. Ten thousand Sudanese jammed the big dusty square before the stuccoed, white-domed tomb, brightening the drab town with pink, blue, yellow and green galabias (skirted garments). For the first time since the Mahdi's victory over Gordon, big black, green and red banners, bearing the silver crescent, and dervish spear, danced overhead. Inside the tomb enclosure, women rocked and swayed over big rawhide drums, wailing mournful tunes in high-pitched tones...
...Until." With Ford auto assembly unhurt, pink-cheeked, balding Robert Keys, the ex-Ford foreman who had formed F.A.A. in 1941 and still heads it, telephoned Ford Personnel Chief John S. Bugas, and asked what Ford had to offer. Answered Bugas crisply: "I'll be very happy to talk to you when the men go back to work-not until...
...ring, a compass ring for Shredded Wheat, a radar ring for Peter Pan Peanut Butter) for the major users of box-top premiums. Latest to come off the top-secret list: a "weather ring" for B. F. Goodrich. (A tiny sheet of litmus paper beneath a plastic lens turns pink in rainy weather, blue in fair...
Young Tories, who had long sought a faith to replace Britons' lost belief in small c conservatism (TIME, April 21), perked up in confidence. Now that there was pink in the Right, they felt right in the pink for campaigning...
...Rose prose, with a base of carnival-barker shrewdness and a pink topping of cotton-candy poetry, has caught the crowd like an inspired midway pitch. Only last week his column caught 17 more papers. By June 10 he expects to close a deal sewing up 3,000 U.S. weekly newspapers. That would put him thousands of readers up on Winchell himself. With no pretense to modesty, Columnist Rose predicts: "I'll be second only to the Bible...