Word: ball-point
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...This is how big of a space they need,” he says holding up a ball-point pen horizontally and pointing at the tiny circle...
...picked up surprisingly. I got several guys to give $200 and one to up his contribution to $350. By my standards of salesmanship, that was not at all bad. I may not have come close to qualifying for the prize bottle of wine, but I could take the Harvard ball-point pen home without scruple. When classmates are home, it's usually not that bad. Most people treat the call as expected and appropriate. They've grown accustomed to the call: it's not like taking them away from the dinner table to sell them a new credit card...
...process: reporters banged out copy on the newsroom's battered Royal typewriters; editors fine-tuned the typescript with ball-point pens; down in the shop, typesetters retyped the copy to produce spools of paper punch-tape; those tapes were fed to Compugraphic, which in turn produced printed galleys that were dried, coated with wax, and pasted up on cardboard "flats" for proofing...
...that usually suffuses his ample frame. But if the sparks were not exactly flying off Holbrooke, the news he brought to Washington was electrifying enough. As a clutch of State Department officials peered over his shoulder, he unfolded a map of Bosnia atop Christopher's desk, took out a ball-point pen and drew a line running from the northern border town of Dvor south to Sanski Most, then snaking southwest to the city of Jajce...
...Ball-points, though less bold, have their own lore. They always work well in structured environments full of forms and charts and whatnot; they reek of office work and documentation. Have you ever seen a salesperson at Macy's fill in a tri-copy receipt with anything but a ball-point, sometimes engraved with the manager's son's little league team slogan, squeezed between well-manicured fingernails? In German class, I saw the ball-point ratio skyrocket. Even the Europeans, whom I had always romanticized as the last bastion of the noble fountain-pen glory, were filling in blanks...