Word: pencilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Response. All through Taft's speech Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg had sat slouched in his chair, doodling with a pencil. Now he sprang to his feet, the color rising in his face. "I should think," he said, "[that] the Senator from Ohio would join me among the very first. ... If he found that those with whom we were cooperating were doing what we had contemplated and hoped for ... he would be the first to say it was a golden opportunity to continue this program...
...Pius was at his summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo, deep in the Alban Hills. Beneath his long hand on the light walnut desk lay the morning's mail, with all the envelopes personally addressed to the Pope still unopened. Many begging letters Pius XII marked with a gold pencil, so that help should be sent immediately. Then he came to a letter from an industrialist who complained of the excessively high commissions charged by the Vatican for personal loans of $450,000 and 90,000,000 lire; he mentioned interest rates as high as 45%. Incredulous, the Pope glanced...
...Barnsdall Jr., a lawyer of Buffalo, lent a policeman a pencil to write, out a parking ticket, later got off on the ground that the ticket was not written in ink or indelible pencil...
...Bureau's admiration for Partridge is reciprocated. He would "never go against the Weather Bureau," but once in a long while he does blue-pencil official forecasts that strike him as debatable...
...went on, I started to think differently. My parents were amazed I could be so generous and thoughtful." In another school, a little girl who had been fiercely anti-Japanese wrote a theme on tolerance. "If a Japanese came to my school," she said, "and asked me for a pencil, I wouldn...