Word: pencilers
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...said snippily, "It's a secret," and then added briskly: "Mr. President, do you mean you didn't want to answer the question?" Franklin Roosevelt, still chuckling, said, Let's see . . . who was the little girl in the stories? Pollyanna? Elizabeth Craig was still uncrushed, her pencil poised...
...reticence and understatement. As a ten-year cover-to-cover reader, I can recall without referring to your files that you did your very best to depict the seriousness of the international situation not only after Pearl Harbor and before Bataan. You outlined with a dark editorial pencil the sinister threat of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis to the democracies in general and the U.S. in particular long before Pearl Harbor...
...strain; he hates uncertainty. All he could do now was to pace around headquarters, scribble memos to himself, a set habit at such times. One of his self-memos could stand as a masterpiece of military understatement: "Now I'd like a few reports." He doodled with his pencil, barked at his aides...
...fuzzy ends of these branches (see cut) gave penicillium its name, which comes from the Latin penicillus, meaning "brush" (forerunner of the modern pencil...
...supreme moment came in Parliament's gilt-crested Royal Gallery last fortnight, when King addressed members of the Houses of Lords and Commons. He had worked and reworked his speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of his view that each Dominion must be free to go its own way within a loose Commonwealth framework. But it was no orator's triumph; Mackenzie King's drone had its usual soporific effect on his audience...