Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is Hell on Earth, where nobody will lend you a pencil without asking what's in it for them...
With that statement, Wright raised the stakes of this in-House scandal for the Democrats assembled around him. It is said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from...
...used a number-three pencil and said I was very happy with the University Health Services," said Toner. "No one at Harvard is happy with the health services...
...yielding nuclear-fusion reaction -- a Holy Grail of physics for nearly 40 years. Moreover, the event had not occurred in one of the great national laboratories; it was the work of a pair of chemists operating on a shoestring budget and using little more than a test tube, a pencil-thin strip of metal and a car battery. Even more incredible was the assertion that this humble apparatus, fueled with a form of hydrogen found in ordinary seawater, had generated four times as much energy as it consumed. Could this be a new and virtually limitless source of cheap, clean...
...American president ever took pencil in hand and learned from the mistakes of his predecessor," he said. "Each American president got the country in deeper...