Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General of the Army George Catlett Marshall who laid down the most effective drumfire. Probably more than any other citizen, George Marshall is trusted by Congress. The members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, who had stood as a mark of respect to the neatly turned-out, pink-faced Chief of Staff when he entered the room, were clearly impressed as the old soldier sent over his shots...
...Pink, squat Jacques Duclos, 50, veteran of the GPU, is No. 2 Communist. Last week he blared the party's new line: "We are the champions and defenders of the middle class." Other Communist leaders: ruddy, rotund Florimond Bonte, 55, clerk's son and charter party member, is the Communist foreign affairs expert. Tall, devious Andre Marty, 59, an International Brigadier in the Spanish Civil War, is the party hellion...
...Rios of Chile dropped into Manhattan to dedicate raffish Sixth Avenue as the Avenue of the Americas. He also decorated old friend Nelson Rockefeller, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, with Chile's Order of Merit, threw himself into an all-out Latin embrace that tickled Father John D. pink (see cut). Then he headed for Hollywood...
...since the London mob cheered gaudy Lord Nelson had any sailorman returned to port from victories so vast. But Americans were inclined to be a little vague about the U.S. Navy's white-haired, pink-cheeked Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who had directed the Battle of the Pacific from a desk. He had never courted publicity. He had accumulated stiff titles like CINCPAC or CINCPOA instead of nicknames. And he had spent most of the war at Pearl Harbor and Guam...
...frisky, furry young pandas were fresh from the mountain forests of Szechwan Province. They were presents to the New York Zoo from Madame Chiang Kaishek. In 1941, the zoo named them Pan-Dee and Pan-Dah. They appeared to be in the pink of health. But the great question was: were they a pair or were they a couple? It was hoped they would turn out to be a couple-but nobody knew for sure...