Word: foolscap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided to put out one of her own, used foolscap and duplicating machines to publish the Chulmleigh Chimes. In such villages as Honiton and Devizes, town criers polished their bells, walked the streets belting out the news...
...Back-Bench Boys. Later, appointed chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Associations, i.e., the Tory Party. Rab introduced Sir Anthony Eden. Delegates waited impatiently while the Prime Minister traveled through page after page of foolscap manuscript, to survey the domestic scene. But what about Suez...
Pantomime. On his fourth day in camp, the authorities sat Janos down before some sheets of blank foolscap and by gestures urged him to draw. Janos threw his pencil to the floor and ran away. Time after time the camp officers coaxed him back with lumps of sugar. Gradually, as thin fingers traced deliberate line after line on the yellow paper, a crude autobiography in hieroglyphics began to take shape...
...also chased and reprimanded recklessly speeding military truck drivers. But he insists on speed in paperwork. An operational order, once given, must be written, stenciled and back on his desk in 20 minutes. And it must not be longer than one foolscap page. "Then," he says, "maybe someone will read...
...trusted henchmen. Last week, rummaging through a filing cabinet, he found a key that unlocked the drawer. Inside he found the richest souvenir yet of Boss Hague's corrupt and efficient regime: six bound volumes labeled either "For" or "Against" and containing, on hundreds of pages of legal foolscap, the names of every home owner in Jersey City...