Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Eddie Eagan finally took a count of ten. He resigned his job, and the ink was barely dry before Governor Dewey appointed his successor: Hotelman Robert Christenberry, 52, whose favorite indoor sport is watching wrestling matches on television...
...morning . . . a most important gentleman came to our front door carrying a huge big box from Queen Victoria . . . There was a letter on top written in gold ink . . . He was all dressed in a beautiful uniform of red, and had on a blue hat with a white feather. When Mamsie hurried to open the big box she found it was all lined with red, white and blue cotton wool, and there in the very middle...
...laboratory of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion last week, young (28) Dr. Louis F. Michalak blacked the foreheads of two human guinea pigs with India ink to make the skin more heat-absorbent. The doctor tested their "pain threshold" with the heat from a 1,000-watt lamp. After taking their normal readings, Dr. Michalek reached for a pain-killing drug to inject. He meant to give them Demerol (safe dose: 100 milligrams). Then he would repeat the test on a third volunteer and himself, using methadon (safe dose: 10 milligrams). More pain readings were to follow...
...example, like the Lake Washington canal wall, give a hard, clipped ping. Signals from a smooth beach or hidden sand bar are drawn out, sound for all the world like someone scratching granite with his fingernails. And as if all this were not enough, an automatic pen-and-ink recording is made of all the signals that shine in the scopes and sing their peculiar modulations from the loudspeaker...
...Ink & Blood. With George Jones, also a former Tribune man, Raymond raised $40,000 to launch the daily Times. He drove his staff hard, drove himself harder. A good editor, said Raymond, needed "a constitution like the Wandering Jew's, a patience as inexhaustible as his frame, and a physical endurance equal to that of a victim of the Inquisition." His own 5 ft. 6 frame was slight, but he often worked twelve and 15 hours at a stretch, could keep writing even while listening to unrelated problems. "Get all of the news," he demanded. Much...