Word: pinks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Detroit's Tigers, still cocky because of their potent pitching pair-Dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser, who racked up a record of 56 wins last year-still cannot pretend it isn't painful to have lost Slugger Dick Wakefield (.355) and Pink) Higgins...
...Esso incendiary is a 6½ lb., 19 in. length of six-sided pipe filled with gasoline thickened to a sticky, raspberry-pink jelly by the addition of a still-secret powder. This oil-bomb produces almost twice as much heat in proportion to weight as magnesium and spreads destruction much faster...
...grey, troubled streets of Paris began to show patches of color, and U.S. soldiers on furlough caught the first faint scents of spring. Here & there window boxes showed bright yellow daffodils, pink hyacinths, deep-toned violets. The war news was good, and shops blossomed with a gaiety of frothy spring hats and gaudy costume jewelry...
Count Giuseppe Volpi, 67, felt like a blooming magnolia-one of the pink & white magnolias that were bursting into flower again in Lausanne's formal gardens. For another spring had come to the new ruins of old Europe, amidst which the Count was somewhat surprised to find himself alive. From the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Mussolini's ex-finance minister could watch the Lake of Geneva reflect the blue sky as in a sun-flecked mirror. Some mornings were so crisp that the Count could see clear across to Evians-les-Bainson the French shore, where, in the evil...
...grass poked up green in the Bois, and the Paris air began to shed winter's tired grey. But spring's true heralds on the boulevards were new bonnets-a straw cartwheel blooming with daisies, a rowboat with roses, a green-&-pink aviary and other elegances of haute couture...