Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool Jerusalem dawn of a Jewish Sabbath, the British struck. Tommies seized the three-storied, pink stone headquarters of the Jewish Agency on King George Road, toted away its files. The British slapped a curfew on much of Palestine; truckloads of raiding parties in full war kit rounded up more than a thousand Jews, including the Agency leaders. Except for the armored cars and truckloads of British troops, Jerusalem was a ghost town. Jewish children had a hilarious time taunting guards into chasing them. Many a Tommy obliged. But the day passed with little violence. The official casualty list...
Last week a new British Royal governor, pink-faced Sir Henry Knight, 60, who looks like a retired lightweight champion, punched out his challenge to dacoity-"Burma's Public Enemy No. 1." He had two jobs in Burma, which he linked together (perhaps unfairly) with a threat; his soldiers would "take immediate action against people who make subversive speeches" because "in some cases there is a direct connection between subversive activity and dacoity...
Irrepressible House of Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
...admission, Manhattan's pink knight among newspapers, the hyperthyroid tabloid PM, has everything it takes to be a great newspaper-except readers. Its 165,000 nickel-a-day "shareholders" (over 200,000 pay a dime on Sundays) make up a weekly $60,000 pot, but each week some bills go unpaid. For most of PM's six years, Marshall Field has been standing off the sheriff. Some weeks the gesture cost him $40,000. By last week, founder-editor Ralph Ingersoll's* pamphleteering paper had set back his benefactor...
...march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe he had found the place where stooped cripples and trembling yellow hags could bathe and become pink-skinned virgins once again...