Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three daughters) and 14 grandchildren were almost all within easy reach of Longmeadow, the Wilson's big fieldstone home on Island Lake, near Detroit. Also, he anticipated more time for Windrow Farms, where he raises prizewinning Ayrshire cattle (whose vital statistics he always carried with him in a notebook...
...father, and big brother, pretty much calls the shots around the bigtop, even with interviewers from newspapers. "I talk English good," he said, when we were first introduced. "And I talk five languages too: English, my own French, Flemish--write this down," he broke off, pointing sharply at my notebook. "And, let's see, Flemish and Dutch and Swedish." began to stretch...
...Call Was Necessary. Oveta Hobby's life moves with the precision of a metronome. At home in Houston, she issues household instructions to her domestic staff at weekly meetings. A fitful sleeper, she keeps a notebook on her bedside table, makes frequent midnight notes on her "planned life." Her office appointments are lined up on a conveyor-belt schedule. Her double-handled calfskin bag, which she carries everywhere, is a special efficiency container which she designed for her business papers, her purse, and a Book of Common Prayer...
...story on the 65th Puerto Rican Infantry, which was being reorganized after 97 members were charged with "bugging out" under enemy fire. Kendrick spent hours touring the regiment's front-line positions. Just as he was ready to leave, a lieutenant stepped up, demanded Reporter Kendrick's notebook, tore several pages from it and handed it back. I.N.S. Correspondent John Casserly, on a similar assignment, had the same thing happen to him; picture captions jotted down by U.P.'s Photographer Warren Lee were also confiscated...
...allies, and the black backdrop of Communism were all the same. But the President of the U.S., who came before a joint session of Congress this week to deliver his message on the State of the Union, was different. Before Dwight Eisenhower had flipped four pages of his looseleaf notebook, the difference came clear. It was a new grasp of the nature of the challenge before the U.S., and in the grasp the problems themselves seemed less awesome...