Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth vertically at speeds of from 41 m.p.h. to 1,870 m.p.h., depending on the drop altitude and method of release. Some are merely shoved out of airplanes or hovering helicopters; others are dive-bombed or rocketed to boost their velocities. The best penetrators, Sandia has found, are pencil-shaped missiles of heavy metal that are at least 8 to 10 times longer than their diameters. Some have plunged more than 200 ft. into the earth...
...Ohiri was released so that he could return to Nigeria to live out the rest of his life with his family. On the plane back he tried to write a collection of memoirs that he had been planning, but his once athletic hands could not even grip the pencil...
From Broom to Pencil. Such modern techniques, combined with fast reaction to loan requests and an unusual willingness to take chances, have pushed Bradesco from nowhere 25 years ago into a commanding position as Brazil's biggest private bank-second in size to the federal government's bank. It now has deposits of $175 million, serves 1,200,000 customers and claims 174,000 shareholders, including all of its 8,064 employees...
...this is the accomplishment of a lean, handsome Brazilian named Amador Aguiar, 64, the son of peasants and a school dropout who got his start sweeping the floors of a small-town bank. Soon he handed in his broom for an accountant's pencil and, when his boss fled with the cash, moved up to manager. In 1943, with the assist of a few friends and $3,000 capital, he struck...
...given a total of nearly $9,000,000 to major dance groups, while the National Endowment for the Arts has divvied up another $1,000,000. Says National Arts Council President Roger Stevens: "Dance needs money more than any of the other arts. A writer needs pencil and paper, a painter needs canvas and paints. But a choreographer needs bodies, and they have to be paid." They are not paid very well; while a top Balanchine star such as Villella or Melissa Hayden can make $20,000 a year, the girls in the New York City's corps...