Word: foolscap
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...Other things were, too. Along with the black Royals and the reams of yellow foolscap we’d feed them, The Crimson newsroom of my era had inherited a strong sense of progressive tradition; the campus’s Vietnam-era turmoil was only a couple of four-year cycles behind us. We carried an activist torch, marched for divestiture, and protested the Carter-era revival of draft registration...
...give you a rule," Rumsfeld said last Friday, an hour or so after he announced that he would let the services reform themselves. He put pen to yellow foolscap and spoke as he wrote. "It goes something like this: 'If you deal with a senior officer, you can be almost absolutely certain that he is capable of doing a number of things very, very well--even though the thing you are dealing with him on may not be one of those things...
During a break in his paratrooper training, Prince Charles spent the better part of a weekend responding on paper to questions submitted to him by TIME, writing out his replies on lined foolscap with a felt-tipped pen. This rare royal interview is the first that Charles has given to a non-British publication. Excerpts...
...movie is an adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's foolscap bestseller about a German journalist who happens onto The Big Story. An old man, a Jew, kills himself and leaves a diary behind. The diary is a chronicle of concentration-camp horror, especially of the bestiality of a commander called Roschmann (Maximilian Schell), who killed, along with some 60,000 others, the diarist's wife. The diarist remembered Roschmann vividly, even though the commander had dropped from sight. Nearly 20 years later he was spotted at the opera, and the Jew reported him to the police. The official response...
...GRANDE DE COCA-COLA. An effervescent foolscap farce-it's the real thing...