Word: ballpoints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-conscious note on the dust jacket informs that Author Goodman saw Army service during the war "but all of it in the U.S.," suggesting that The End of It might be just another attempt to ring the bell of Adano with a ballpoint pen. But he has collected his material with all the thorough absorption of a Walter Lord assembling data on the voyage of the Titanic, and after a turgid beginning in which the book nearly founders in the rhetoric of Why and Wherefore, he writes closely and often superbly, offering on the side a fascinating lesson...
...apparently still have trouble producing a decent ballpoint pen. Signing autographed menus for guests, Nikita was handed a Russian pen that failed at the crucial moment. Pulling out his own, Khrushchev said grinning, "Mine writes. It is American. You have to recognize when a thing is well made...
Meticulously taking notes with a black ballpoint pen, underlining in red important document fragments, Adolf Eichmann but for his glass cage might have been a minor court bureaucrat during the first eight weeks of his trial. As witness after witness rose to recount the Nazi crimes against the Jews, the green-backed files and notebooks in the cage grew higher and higher. At night in his cell, Eichmann pored over his files until his eyes watered with weariness. Last week, when he took the stand for the first time in his own defense, Eichmann was ready to the point...
...plane turned northward, Kennedy removed his coat, slouched down in his seat behind a desk, drank a glass of milk and sawed away at a medium-rare filet of beef. Lunch done, he squinted out the window, picked up a ruled pad of yellow paper and a ballpoint pen. Over the first three pages, he scribbled a new opening for his inaugural speech-even while, just a few feet away, Secretary Evelyn Lincoln was hammering out an older version...
...does he always pound on his desk in a parliament of nations. He may be as urbane as the 18th century philosophers who prepared the way for the guillotine and the tumbrels. Or, in one man's words: He may wear a Brooks Brothers suit and carry a ballpoint pen ... In fact, even beneath the academic gown there may lurk a child of the wilderness, untutored in the high tradition of civility, who goes busily and happily about his work a domesticated and law-abiding man engaged in the construction of a philosophy...