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Agent Pink
C1. attributive with capital initial and the name of a colour, as Agent Blue, Agent Pink, Agent White, etc. Designating any of a group of herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to remove forest cover and destroy crops. See also Agent Orange n.The herbicides were named after the colour coding on the drums containing them, and were used in South-East Asia between 1962 and 1971. They later became notorious for their toxic effects.
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1964 C. L. Flynn Test & Eval. A/A 45Y-2 Pressurized Defoliant Dispenser (AD 453073) iv. 24 Grid tests with the defoliant agent, orange, were conducted to determine the capability of the..system to deliver approximately three gallons of defoliant agent per acre.]
1966 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. 10/1 They stressed that the defoliation and crop destruction chemicals were not lethal. One chemical, whose code name is Agent Orange, consists of a 50-50 mixture of butyl esters and a second, known as Agent Blue, comprises cacedylic [read cacodylic] acid.
1972 New Scientist 6 Jan. 36/3 More than a million gallons of Agent Orange..was being shipped back to the United States... This move still leaves the less toxic Agent White and Agent Blue at the disposal of United States and South Vietnam forces.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 June b8/3 Veterans of the war in Vietnam who had been exposed to Agent Orange, Agent Blue and Agent White have asserted that the defoliants have caused cancer.
2003 G. B. Swanson Click Here 56 The gardener proudly shows the rose..and smiles as though he himself..contrived its subtle fragrance—a cloud of agent pink—that wafts across the yard.
2010 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 16 Feb. 7 a Decker volunteered for a small Army group that tested Agent Orange, Agent Purple, Agent Pink..and other chemicals on a remote military reservation in Thailand.
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