Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several weeks ago, when Gavam announced that Persian Government troops would be sent into the province, Ivan Sadchikov, Moscow's bald, pink Ambassador to Persia, protested vigorously. Gavam did not back down. On his instructions, Ambassador Ala reported Sadchi-kov's remarks to the Security Council (in his letter they were called "friendly admonitions") and asked the Council to keep an eye on northern Persia. At a Persian Embassy dinner in Washington, word was informally passed that the U.S. would vigorously support "Persia and any other nation that defends its established rights...
Union reading tastes are also tainted with a sexual flavor and pink hue, as may be noted from monthly sellouts of Esquire and The Nation. Apparently contrary to the liberal arts trend shown in University course popularity figures, this scientific age of wonders retains a strong grip on the technically-minded Yardlings who avidly devour all procurable copies of Amazing Science when it makes its monthly appearance...
Professor Elliott has been observing the political scene for a good number of years, and when he advisors the American delegation to pull out of the International Union of Students right away, his words must admittedly cary weight. In spite of a certain preeliction to see pink nearly anywhere, his judgments can neither be parried lightly nor "ridden out," as a boxer would handle a potentially damaging punch...
Ruth (Patricia Kirkland) sang the music of The Pink Lady, secretly bombarded actresses with letters, tried for a job with a Boston stock company. But her father (Fredric March) wanted her to teach physical education, and her father was a formidable man. It needed all Ruth's courage, plus a push from her sympathetic mother (Florence Eldridge), to confess her hopes to this quick-tempered old bear who growled at everything from churches to telephones. But Father heard Ruth out with surprising calm-he sensed her tenaciousness if not her talent...
...Everett Moore Baker, pink-faced and prematurely white-haired at 45, has been minister of Cleveland's First Unitarian Church (with the denomination's third largest membership) since 1942. Really a New Englander, he was born in Massachusetts, where he was a preacher for nine years. Until he took the Cleveland pulpit, he was vice president of the American Unitarian Association, head of its publications and of a Boston radio program...