Word: pencilers
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Thursday: Gray cashmere. Six buttons down front. Pockets on left side. She dropped her pencil in the middle of Professor Putnam's lecture...
...teacher recites the lesson and, if even that bores them, they are free to wander outside to play among the jungle gyms, the playboats and sandboxes, the swings and the barbecue pit. If a teacher asks for a composition, she is the one who gets out the pad and pencil; the student will dictate it to her and she will type...
...freer to travel. Their treasures were a choice, if uneven, selection of modern paintings, sculpture and drawings, and it had both Parke-Bernet's main gallery (white tickets) and TV annex (pink tickets) jammed to overflowing. The bidding was brisk: a curt nod, a quick wave of a pencil, an almost imperceptible gesture with a finger-the secret semaphore of auctioneering-would send the bidding up anywhere from $100 to $5,000. When the auctioneer had exhausted every other trick in his bag of cajolery, he would invoke the ultimate persuader of the current art market...
...child's nursery rhyme. Small Seurat peasants bend to their toil near some childlike magic created by Paul Klee and a few austere and haunting landscapes by Lyonel Feininger. And near them hang the museum's latest acquisitions-two perfect chrysanthemums, one in pencil, the other in watercolor-done by Piet Mondrian in the days before he began painting his color-laden grilles...
...orange spacesuit, Titov clambered up the gantry ladder and settled himself in the giant five-ton capsule perched on the rocket's nose. An attendant handed him a notebook labeled ''Log Book of the Spaceship Vostok II.'' With exaggerated care, Titov examined the pencil dangling from the log, and remembered: "Yuri Gagarin did not attach his pencil firmly and lost it." Then the hatch clanged shut, arid soon Vostok II lifted through the clear air to carry Titov on the longest journey ever made by man -nearly 435,000 miles in 17 hurtling orbits around...