Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain that the Phantom of P.S. 12 was still in the building, the principal posted sentries at all the doors, called the police. A detective, six patrolmen, and a posse of teachers searched the whole building. All they found was splattered ink and taunts chalked on the walls. Once again the Phantom of P.S. 12 had dropped into the void of Superman and Captain Midnight from which he sprang...
Mercurochrome & Ink. The Russians on the other side of the Elbe- members of Marshal Konev's 58th Guards Division-sent up colored flares, the prearranged signal to designate friendly forces. Robertson had no flares. He took a bedsheet from a house, broke into a pharmacy, found mercurochrome and blue ink, made a crude representation of a U.S. flag and waved it from the tower of an ancient castle. The Russians, who had been tricked by Germans waving U.S. flags, sent over a few anti-tank shells...
Like student managers before a big football game, hundreds of citizens toiled last week to prepare San Francisco for the world security conference three weeks hence. Treasury procurement agents rounded up 20 carloads of desks, 400 typewriters with French, Spanish and Russian keyboards, cartons of pens, pencils, binders and ink bottles. Police departments in New York, Chicago and New Orleans picked detectives to prowl San Francisco looking for New York, Chicago and New Orleans crooks. San Francisco hotelmen sweated at the thankless job of shooing guests...
Kelly's pen was sharp from the first, but as time went on he dipped it into ever darker ink. Manners gave place to morals, nose-tweaking to vivisection. Spoofing the Little-Theater Movement in The Torch Bearers, he harshly satirized a blustering
...makin ya no promises, but we think we got something here that will help ya out. Ya've all had the urge for the roar of the presses and the smell of hot copy--as we say in journalese--an this is the place to come. If printer's ink is whatcha want--if ya got the ol touch in business--if ya like to take pictures of big shots--we got what'll keep ya happy...