Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since he was six years old, the expert has been painting--water colors, oils, pencil drawings, even etchings--but his favorite is pastel work. He paints things as he sees them, "realistically," he says, and he hates "modern stuff." "Symbols and bright colors don't make a painting," is his comment--"I'd rather have the paint in a tube...
...your are ready for bed. Fall asleep. Dream of a Saturday Quiz. Take up your pencil. That's right. Now with deft, steady strokes, play tic, tac, toe on all the odd questions and tiddley winks on all the even ones. Who knows, you might even get the right answer, and besides, won't Dr. Tatum be surprised...
...shirt and pants anyway. Clothing saves skin on the trip down a rope or a rough hull. To save the hands ("principal tools of salvation") Chambliss recommends carrying a pair of light leather gloves in the hip pocket at all times. A knife is a necessity. So is a pencil flashlight, easily carried in a shirt pocket, best kept dry in a knotted rubber sheath ("a bit inelegant, but elegance has no place in abandoning ship...
...young 'uns must first be fed. and we can't run to the nearest grocery store just before we put the skittle on. It is necessary to prepare a requisition so we get our our specimens, grab a pencil, put the pencil behind our car, and watch the storekeeper make...
...each other, like the notes of some terrible symphony . . . that he must conduct . . . with utter flawlessness, knowing well that one flaw will kill him." Square in the Belly . Now he had reached the tremendous climax. Suddenly "the whole setup swam sluggishly into focus" and through the water, "like a pencil stripe," ran the torpedo's wake and Swede was away, whipping, ducking, sashaying out of range of the angry guns. With a start Swede heard a voice in his earphones say: "Nice work, Swede. You got him square in the belly...