Word: pads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half hour later he denied these statements. While he spoke, one of the defense lawyers doodled on a white pad. When Koch had finished, the doodle stood out in heavy black lines, clearly visible from the press box up above. It was a gallows...
Danger Signal (Warner) is a yarn about a family of ardent cinemaddicts who are menaced by a type that they should have been adequately warned against: the sleek, mustachioed lady-killer. Armed with a revolver, an engagement ring ironically inscribed "Till death us do part" and a shorthand pad on which his victims write their own suicide notes, the killer (Zachary Scott) goes about victimizing the girls for whatever he can get: love, money, auto rides, or free psychiatric advice. As soon as his ladies begin to lose their first attraction, he reaches for the shorthand pad and the revolver...
...process was slow. The Japanese seemed willing and obedient but bewildered. Said one U.S. officer: "It's like telling a stenographer to bring a pad for dictation and having her so literal that she won't bring a pencil...
...asset. Just as in future years military tactics and strategy will be judged on whether they are pre-or-post Hiroshima, so diplomatic dealings today are dated backward & forward from Yalta. That was the key conference of World War II. Jimmy Byrnes was not only there; he was therewith pad & pencil in hand. His shorthand notes are still the best record-in the U.S., at least-of what went on at the Czar's Palace in the Crimea...
Mumbling about what happens to the "hypothalamic proclivities" when they are released through concussion from "the higher control of the cortex," the special ist began to draw the marks of the wound on a scratch pad. "A person in this state," he concluded, "may find ... his disability offers a convenient escape from responsibilities, you understand...