Word: longhanding
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...contact lenses did not work, so he gave them up. He cannot abide a dictating machine, and so writes his memos with his left hand, longhand. He eschews anything to do with guns, even trapshooting. While he keeps a watch on the University of Michigan teams, he keeps closer ties with his teen-age football mates, the Trojans of South High School...
...last November of the nanny to a titled family and an attack on her employer, the Countess of Lucan, that put the countess in the hospital for a week (TIME, Nov. 25). Thirty-two witnesses, Lady Lucan among them, dryly recited their testimony as the coroner summarized it in longhand. From the start, the inquest had become virtually a trial in absentia of Lord Lucan, 40, who has been missing since the night of the murder. The verdict of the coroner's jury, after only 31 minutes of deliberation: "Murder by Lord Lucan...
Heller writes in longhand on yellow pads and 3-by-5 cards, which he carries with him constantly. He does not meet friends for lunch any more ("I enjoyed that too much, and all I wanted to do was sleep the rest of the afternoon"), now jogs three miles a day in a gym. "It's good mentally," he says, "but so boring that I can barely get through...
Agnew also writes hundreds of letters -many in longhand-to supporters who have deluged him with 37,000 pieces of mail since his world collapsed...
...haven't written a thing. I sit down with a pad and try to write longhand, but I can't think and I lose interest. I can't believe the money I'm spending on attorneys. It costs me $1,200-$ 1,500 every day I'm in a hearing or legal appearance. Luckily, my notoriety has sparked an interest in my books-I've had 19 titles issued this year, 17 reissues and two new ones-but all the money is going to lawyers...