Word: inking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holding forth at a cafe, and however brilliantly or passionately he talked, his pen would begin doodling as if it had a brain of its own. "How many times," said his friend, Novelist Theophile Gautier, "have we not watched with astonished gaze the transformation of a blot of ink or coffee on the back of an envelope into a landscape, a castle, a seascape of amazing originality...
...WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING. CEroled the Herald Tribune. "New York's ALIVE again," said the Mirror. In a paean to the sweet scent of printer's ink. Hearst Columnist Bob Considine cooed...
Living High. The newspapers themselves accounted for the biggest blot of red ink: a $101,200,000 loss in sales and ad revenue by the beginning of last week. Salary losses came to $50 million, though the 3,000 printers who started the whole thing continued to live relatively high on a combination of strike benefits and unemployment insurance that averaged $121 a week-which is more than many of the 20,000 idled employees make even when they are working...
...Brandeis student council has condemned the ink splattering and writing of obscenities. "If the students responsible are not found," a spokesman declared, "then the council will pay to repair the damages...
Anyone who has ever used pen and ink ("the black liquor with which men write") has cause to be grateful to Dr. Samuel Johnson, who compiled what was almost the first and for a long time the best dictionary of the English language...