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...