Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentle hillside overlooking the beachhead the soldiers helped the natives. Pup tents and tarpaulins kept off tropical rains until the engineers could build wooden buildings. Field kitchens served good, hot food. Pretty girls, wearing pink, mauve and yellow pajama suits, flirted with the soldiers. All the natives carried the few belongings they had managed to save-cooking utensils, extra clothing, baskets and mats...
Ball Games in Battle. The cause of the excitement was a touch football game in which the yellow-shirted Gas Detail was playing the pink-shirted NAPs (naval airplane pushers...
...long that even the Democrats opposed to Term IV did not trouble to make any case for the two-term tradition. And long before the ballots were cast, convention orators were unabashedly referring to Franklin Roosevelt as the nominee. On the opening night, Keynoter Bob Kerr, Oklahoma's pink-jowled Governor, set the theme: "with our Commander in Chief to victory." He also showed how deeply one of Tom Dewey's arguments had sunk in by roaring: "Shall we discard as a 'tired old man' 59-year-old Admiral Nimitz . . . 62-year-old Admiral Halsey...
...books were on sale last week which together furnished a convenient checklist of the causes of human infertility. Fertility in Men (Lippincott; $3.50) was wrapped in a blue dust jacket; Fertility in Women (Lippincott; $4.50), in pink. Men is by Lieut. Commander Robert Sherman Hotchkiss of Manhattan; Women is by Dr. Samuel Lewis Siegler of Brooklyn Women's Hospital. With their help, a good doctor should be able to help about half of the childless couples who consult him to get into the market for blue or pink layettes...
President Roosevelt gave one of the toughest of all Washington jobs to a Utahan last week. Pink-cheeked, balding, urbane Robert Henry Hinckley, 53, a onetime Mormon missionary and small-town schoolteacher, was appointed Director of Contract Settlement...