Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back of the chamber and walked over to Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott to watch Scott's tally sheet. On the Democratic side of the aisle, John F. Kennedy sat somber-faced, his chin propped on one hand, his other hand nervously fiddling with a pencil. It was the most dramatic scene of Congress' postscript session: the nip-and-tuck roll call on the Kennedy-backed proposal to provide compulsory medical care for the aged...
Charles Ives had so little hope of his music's being performed that he scrawled most of his scores in pencil, then stuffed them haphazardly in bureau drawers or discarded them. As his health failed, he composed less and less (most of his major works were written before 1920) and withdrew increasingly from the outside world. He rarely would see visitors at his house in West Redding, never read a newspaper, refused to own either a radio or a phonograph. He was not even aware that in Europe, Schoenberg and his disciples were creating a new musical language, having...
...FOREIGN PENCILS are cutting U.S. wooden pencil industry down to "peril point," argued Lead Pencil Manufacturers Assn. before U.S. Tariff Commission. They claim that export market has almost vanished and imports are grinding away at domestic profits...
...women's Olympic track-and-field trials in Abilene, Texas last week, the most conspicuous onlooker was a chunky, intense young Negro with a pencil-thin mustache, who seemed to be all over the field. Between races, he paced the infield grass incessantly. At the finish line, hands clenched, chest thrust forward, his face a mask of rigid concentration, he pantomimed the runners breaking the tape. When the trials were over, the results were surprisingly good, and the credit belonged largely to 29-year-old Edward S. Temple, coach of Tennessee State University's "Tigerbelles...
...Violinist Alexander ("Sasha") Schneider ran through a set of Beethoven sonatas with Artistic Director Serkin's twelve-year-old son, Peter, at the piano. And in the pine-paneled concert hall, Pablo Casals, 83, conducted a chamber orchestra in Mozart's G-Minor Symphony, using a yellow pencil as a baton, spurring on his men and himself with cries of "Oh, very well, very well! So beautiful...