Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have called the shots straight down the line. I am a farmer in the 300-to-400-acre bracket, and it is not enough anymore to work by the sweat of one's brow. The hard work now is pushing a pencil and a pocket calculator. Those who talk about our tractors with air conditioning and radios should know that we who still must drive a tractor must also plan and keep up with the changing markets on our radios...
...like a military command. He was a great commander: tough, decisive, but always fair and humane. The managing editor of TIME is responsible for everything that appears in the magazine, for how the magazine shapes its picture of the world each week, and Alex relished that responsibility. His editing pencil raced across the copy, deleting, adding, transposing, scribbling questions in the margin. When the phone interrupted him, he would always answer it himself, avoiding the wasted word hello and simply stating: "Alexander...
...property had increased in value after his earlier assessment because it was no longer vacant. But Alderman Puglia charges that Howe raised the assessment only when he found out he was being investigated for conflict-of-interest. "After they became aware that I was snooping around, they took a pencil and tried to cover their tracks by changing the assessment," Puglia charges...
...whisked by special courier to the Manhattan apartment of Publisher Arthur ("Punch") Sulzberger. He can hardly help noticing the typographical error in the paper's logo: Not The New York Times. Exactly who is responsible for this outrageous, cunningly crafted parody? Among those reputed to have laid a pencil to the project are Michael Arlen, Carl Bernstein, Nora Ephron, Frances Fitz-Gerald, Jerzy Kosinski, George and Freddy Plimpton, Terry Southern and about three or four dozen other wordsmiths from leading publishing firms, the unemployment rolls and the Times itself. Observed Calvin Trillin, one of the town...
When his lawyers have warned him that he might be sued for the content of his shows, Lear said he never gave in: "They can't take away my kids. And I'll always be able to find a pencil and piece of paper somewhere...