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Word: pinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overhead, huge glass chandeliers hover like Cobra gunships in a white tropical sun. The Los Angeles Marriott Hotel ballroom is a sea of white military formal wear, pink and blue evening dresses, candles and carnations over red carpeting. Nelson Riddle's orchestra swings into What Kind of Fool Am I? as Sammy Davis Jr. hails "our mutual friend" Richard Nixon, then reflects on the song: "I don't think anyone in this room has to re-examine their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Los Angeles: Prisoners of War | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...came to our lunch of eight people two days after the March 18 Minnesota primary of 1952; and he was an Eisenhower none of us had ever known: pink-cheeked as always, but bubbling, expansive, joyful. The Minnesota primary, just over, had been contested by both Taft and Stassen, Minnesota's favorite son. And Eisenhower, not listed on the ballot, on a write-in vote, had come in second to Stassen with 37.2% of the total to Stassen's 44.4% on the regular ballot! (Ike's one-time chief, Douglas MacArthur, it should be noted, won only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Many women claim that athletics increases their sex drive. "Exercise puts sparkle in a woman's eyes, pink in her cheeks and creates a physical vitality that almost bursts out," says Dr. Ullyot. "She becomes body centered and very sensual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Weaker Sex? Hah! | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, is the highest Gulf officer to go so far; at least two more vice presidents also are out. The Gulf Transportation and Trading Co., which directs the firm's fleet of 76 tankers, has also been caught in a shower of pink slips. Says Gulf Chairman Jerry McAfee: "I will be surprised if we don't find more than 1,000 employees who are not essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gulf Oil's Painful Surgery | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...thought he had gone and sat down, when he suddenly came up and thanked me." Pat agrees. "There's more closeness in this House than in the other Houses--it's like one big happy family." She disappears into the kitchen and returns a moment later with a plain pink card bearing the inscription, "To the dining hall staff for cooking up all those good times! THANK YOU! Tom (Trouble) Quint and Tony (T) Brown." The manager of the Lowell House kitchen, Mrs. Daley, says, "Kids come in late and we have open house. I don't mind it, though...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: All Quiet on the Kitchen Front? | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

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