Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ahhh Jeff, we've got a few boxes of six-inch gaskets for Long Island. Send Marty out will ya?" a voice said over the dispatcher's radio. The dispatcher poked a pencil into Marty. He rocked back to the floor, grabbed his tin and a piece of paper, and ambled out of the trailer. "Yew comin' too boy?" he said to me with a harkening drawl. "Awright...
...that it is used for detecting leaks in natural-gas pipelines. Now a Texas entrepreneur named J.W. Small is promoting it as a rape repellent. Rapel, as his $9.95 product is called, is an inch-long plastic cylinder that contains a fragile glass ampoule of the obnoxious fluid. The pencil-thick device can be clipped to the inside of a dress, bra or nightgown; when pressed lightly, the ampoule breaks, releasing the ardor-killing odor. One rape crisis expert frets that Rapel "lulls the user into a false sense of security." Perhaps, but another drawback has already been solved: each...
...things may help, at least initially. First, while considering the new Ramones album, End of the Century, a kind of LP Hellzapoppin, grab a scorecard. A pencil would help...
...event progresses, Daniel remains quiet except to comment on the pace or a swimmer's stroke. Occasionally he will tap his pencil against his notebook before predicting--accurately--the eventual winner...
...nearly 2.5 million people who take standardized tests each year, scribbling in answers in number-two pencil on a computerized answer sheet plays a significant role in shaping their futures. It helps allow them to continue their studies or to enter a profession--such as law--in which many of the state bar examinations are standardized. No matter how one feels about the merits of tests, it is clear they are a tool used in the determination of opportunities. Many test advocates believe they help to break down old social barriers. Standardized tests, they say, move society toward a more...