Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invite his one Key West assistant, John Hanes Jr., 32, and his wife Lucy, and perhaps his doctor, to his quarters for cocktails (a rye on the rocks for the Secretary), and there the Middle East would dominate the conversation. One day Dulles got out his yellow scratchpad and pencil and wrote out a draft of what he called "A United States Declaration on the Middle East." But his thoughts had not jelled, and he tore up the declaration without having it typed...
...effectively assassinated the conjunction as. The singing commercial has popularized so many defective rhymes (gleam with sheen, time with fine, gasoline with supreme] that Fadiman fears the blunting of the simple capacity to match the sound of one word with another. Other commercials tell "how to use eyebrow pencil so it looks natural" or implore the viewer to "have a Camel. They really...
...victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story of the disaster rivet by rivet-from the initial soundings, haphazard design and botched ironwork down to the penny pencil found on the body of a survivor and the last shilling compensation paid to relatives of the victims...
...weeklies increased 1.2% to a record $112 million; this includes a 30% jump (to $25 million) in national ads since 1954 v. an estimated 10% gain for dailies. Said W.N.R.'s Eastern Sales Manager Robert Moore: "The weekly editor used to sit on a porch whittling a pencil. Today he's more apt to be worried the Cadillac will get scratched when it's loaded on the Queen Mary...
...Edens, returning by train, reached 10 Downing Street at 2 p.m. The Queen followed by car, arrived at Buckingham Palace at 5:20 p.m. Twenty minutes before. Eden had confronted his hurriedly assembled Cabinet ministers. Briefly and curtly, toying with a pencil in his fluttering fingers. Sir Anthony explained that his doctors declared his health was giving them cause for concern. There were very difficult times ahead, and he felt it his duty to say forthwith that his health was not good enough to sustain him through these tasks. The formal visit to Buckingham Palace followed...