Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabeth, clutching tight at her notebook, began a long, slow walk down the two blocks fronting the school. She turned once to try the line again-and again the rifles came up. A militia major shielded her from the crowd, escorted her to a bus-stop bench, left her. "Go home, you burr head," rasped an adult voice. Elizabeth sat dazed as the crowd moved in. Then Mrs. Grace Lorch, wife of a Little Rock schoolteacher, sat down on the bench and slipped her arm around the child's shoulders. "This is just a little girl," she cried...
Thirty minutes later, when his monitors woke him by radio, it was dawn. Methodically, Dr. Simons recorded the colors in his notebook (the sun flashed green) and took a urine specimen. By mid-morning the sun had warmed the inside wall of the gondola to 120° F. But the air of the capsule was cooled to 60°-65° by a compact air conditioner...
...early years of World War I), he resolved to simplify all nature in vertical and horizontal (masculine and feminine) strokes, make asymmetry his basic rule, keep the painting flat on the surface. "When one does not represent things, a place remains for the Divine," he jotted in his notebook. He later simplified his palette to primary red, blue and yellow, then, working with charcoal, ruler and strips of paper, bound and balanced the areas with a grid of black lines that became his trademark...
...stories. He told of drinking corn likker for breakfast with "those unhuman people who live between the Mississippi and the levee." He once frankly admitted that his writing methods were often haphazard because "when the characters come alive, all the writer has to do is jog along with his notebook and record what they...
When the Fascists late in the war arrested Alcide de Gasperi (who was to become Italy's great postwar Premier), they found a small notebook full of names. Soon a band of Fascist toughs burst into the Florence home of Lawyer Adone Zoli, one of those named, to haul him off to jail. "Be careful, or I'll kick your teeth in," warned one of the Blackshirts. "Too late," answered Lawyer Zoli. "They are false...