Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have played the fool," he would say when all his money was gone, "but here is my resource." Then he would hold up a pencil-and everyone in the room would know that with that and a box of colors Tom Rowlandson could earn whatever money he needed...
...prewar product line, Matsushita has added a staggering array of new products including television sets, tape recorders, hearing aids, mechanical massagers, electric pencil sharpeners and electrically heated trousers; now he is developing a home freezer and a line of computers...
...none of the answers particularly appeals to you, try not to let it ruin your day. Most of them don't appeal to us, either, but that's journalism. So if noneseems right, take the least wrongest, or guees, or say the hell with it and throw your pencil across the room in a blind rage...
...mambo, the cha cha cha-is also popular, often under the guise of "native folk dances" of Cuba, Russia's Communist friend. Though Russia has its brawling young nihilists, the day of the stilyagi (zoot suiters) is gone; more often youths are dressed in conservative grey with pencil-thin trousers. There is even a blue-jean fad, to the anger of militant party stalwarts, who note acidly that the blue denim must have been smuggled in from abroad, since it is a product not even manufactured in the Soviet Union...
...next cheap kick is already on the scene. Some fast-drying marking pencils contain a solvent like those in the plastic glues, are more inconspicuous for sniffing. A Washington, D.C., public school music teacher told recently of a boy in her class who ordinarily never sang a note. One day she noticed him sniffing a marking pencil behind his songbook: "Then he got up and sang like a bird...