Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Responses to her plea were varied in enthusiasm and comment according to the instigators of the plot. One eager Sophomore begged her to wait just a minute, "while I get a pencil and paper. And can I take you?" he questioned the sweet-voiced miss...
...towering superstructure. Off to starboard a destroyer close at hand plowed on in precise formation, grew dim and lost outline as darkness fell. Off to port, hull-down on the horizon and patrolling the area where the shells would fall, another destroyer disappeared except for the slim reaching pencil of her searchlight, the occasional blinking of her signal light...
...being barred because the Propaganda Ministry didn't like remarks made in the U.S. by CBS Commentator Elmer Davis about P. G. Wodehouse who has become a Nazi broadcaster (TIME, July 14). CBS told the Nazis they could continue to censor its broadcasts in Berlin, but could blue-pencil no CBS copy originating in the U.S. Getting tough with the Nazis got results. Berlin, which appreciates the privilege of sending censored material over major U.S. networks, restored CBS's broadcasting rights...
...Benny Goodman, before departing for Chicago, attracted 10,000 people to Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell for the concert José Iturbí refused to conduct (TIME, July 7). Clarinetist Goodman not only rippled through the Mozart concerto, with Edwin McArthur conducting, but he waved a stick-a pencil-over the Philadelphia Orchestra in the première of a Tango by Stravinsky. Drawled Benny later: "I felt kinda funny...
...devoted wife, who died a few years ago, he used to take long hikes along the Hudson River Palisades, and wrote a New York Walk Book. He still chops wood, goes for long jaunts. A regular visitor at important medical meetings, Dr. Dickinson is usually seen with a pencil poised over a well-worn black notebook, looking intently at the speaker. He is not taking notes; he is sketching a profile...