Word: longhanding
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...quite so far. "I'm just so mad," she says. "We're all together on that." His brother Jay, 22, has written a protest manifesto ("We the people who have signed this petition feel that it was wrong that President Reagan sent the Marines to Beirut!") in longhand on a yellow tablet. If Reagan makes a condolence phone call to them, Mary Lou says, "he'll be put on hold...
...Circuit, was standing by for a possible new plea in the Autry case. While the circuit court's opinion was being read into a Supreme Court tape recorder, Alvin Bronstein, executive director of the A.C.L.U.'s National Prison Project, was sitting in the lobby writing out in longhand an application to stay the execution. As he wrote, the lights flickered on and off, a consequence of the drain on the building's electrical system caused by the refrigeration of historic documents in glass cases in the lobby. Only 51 minutes before the scheduled execution, a clerk handed...
...peacocks. His 30-ft. launch El Pilar he uses for casual pleasure jaunts, trips to Cuba (90 miles away)-and fishing. A Roman Catholic, he is also very superstitious: he never travels on Friday, touches wood constantly, is upset if a black cat crosses his path. Writing (in longhand), he works regular hours, revises conscientiously...
...their TV sets and say, 'There he goes again,' " Reagan told close aides. After receiving several drafts put together by a special team coordinated by the National Security Council, including one submitted later by Kirkpatrick, Reagan toned down much of the language and wrote six pages of additions in longhand. He also rejected a suggestion by Kirkpatrick that he announce a grand Marshall Plan for Latin America to tackle the continent's economic problems. The proposal struck him as unrealistic, since most of the Administration's less ambitious Caribbean Basin Initiative still has not been passed by Congress...
...beginning was longhand, scrawled into blue books. Then came the first technological debate: Should students be allowed to type exams rather than write them out? Many professors, especially at law schools, welcomed the typewriters' greater legibility. Next those silent whizzes, pocket calculators, posed the question of whether mathematics students should be permitted to bring them to exams. Again, technology won. But last week at Harvard Law School, the technological line was finally drawn-at least for the moment. No, said the powers that be, to a request that students be allowed to use word processors and computers for taking...