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Word: penciled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed the trail to the chamber of Senator Russell Long, where he exchanged a few bad jokes with the Kingfish's son and then listened to advice about cutting spending. "I'm running this inflation fight with a roll of dimes for the phone and a pencil and pad," Strauss said about his own example of restraint. He has looked across at General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy and preached a little about corporate citizenship. Murphy, it turned out, got there before Strauss did. "We will meet the President's program on price deceleration," the GM head promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: In the Fog, a Man Searching | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...study architecture at the Polytechnic. "It was clear to me that I could never become an architect, because of the horror of dealing with people that architecture involves. I knew it from the beginning, but I went on with it. One learned elementary things. How to sharpen a pencil. The fact was that most of my colleagues went to architecture the way I went, as a decoy or an alibi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Steinberg | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...blood vessels are so thin-no thicker than an ordinary pencil lead -that the surgeon must peer through a microscope while joining them together.) Then, when the cerebral artery branch is undamped, additional blood spurts into the brain. Finally, the surgeon closes the hole by restoring the skin flap; usually the excised piece of bone is discarded, but patients rarely suffer any discomfort from the soft spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bypass for the Brain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...necessary. Drivers of General Motors' 1978 Cadillac Seville will also be able to punch a button and find out the miles yet to go to a preset destination and the estimated arrival time. The ultimate auto will make the solid gold Cadillac look leaden. It will accommodate a pencil-size portable phone capable of reaching any number in the world in seconds, automatic braking that will take over from a panicked driver, and a mini-radar to avert collisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Living: Pushbutton Power | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic Battleship, while physically impressive and wonderfully noisy, lacks an AC adapter to help preserve batteries and as a game is not quite as interesting (because ships can't be placed on diagonals) as the traditional paper-and-pencil battleship game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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