Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idlers gawked as if they had spied the Mad Mullah of Tud, nose ring and all, cracking pecans on the Hope Diamond. Ed Crump did not ignore them. As he rode on casual journeys through his domain he watched the pavements as sharply as a kingfisher hunting shiners; his pink face lighted at the first sign of recognition. If people turned, he snatched a wide-brimmed grey hat from his ear-long white locks, nodded majestically as if thousands cheered, and cranked down the car window with incredible dexterity to bawl, "Hiya...
...landed on LIFE, which had recently dubbed him-on the basis of a poll of top-ranking Washington correspondents-the "worst man in the Senate." Chugged Bilbo: "This leftish, communistically, pink-colored, mongrel magazine . . . mean, dirty, subtle, libelous...
...plain-shoutin' little man was Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-mayor of New York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero. Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson, wearing a tie painted with pink and yellow apples, was with him-at LaGuardia's urgent request. For two days they had scurried across Red River Valley, looking for wheat for UNRRA...
...Lewis (for 15 years) and to Russian Prince Michael Evlanoff (for 13 months). She is unmarried now. She has her own ideas of perfection, and demands it of her employes, even if a chemist has to spend days remaking a color until Arden herself thinks it is "paradise pink." Her competitors say: "Work for Elizabeth Arden and live in a revolving door...
...Cannes, after weeks of searching, Ann found a pink, plump, nine-month-old orphan of the Resistance. Within a week she had named him Patrick, like the one in Rouen, and had taken him home...