Word: pencilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seaman Jeffrey Cohee said that a guard once smeared his eyes with shaving lotion, on another occasion ordered him to say something and then shoved a pencil up his nose for saying...
...Pencil-seller and suicide...
...warded off questions about his "evidence" of violence by promising to produce it in court. Yet his day in court had come, and neither the evidence nor Orval Faubus was there.* Upon hearing that he was no longer even represented (because he had wanted it so), Faubus called for pencil and paper, scratched out an extraordinary statement: "Now begins the crucifixion. There will be no crossexamination, no evidence presented for the other [Faubus] side. So now, by the use of carefully selected witnesses, the Justice Department's case can be continued. The results are a foregone conclusion...
Dazzling in the Florida sunshine, a slender white missile, 60-odd feet long, rested on its launching pad at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center one morning last week. At count down's end, fire flashed at its base, and the monster slowly rose into the air, a pencil of orange flame lengthening behind it. Straight up it rocketed, gathering speed. Several miles up in the bright blue sky, it arched gracefully into a southeastward course, dwindled to a speck and then, 2¼ minutes after rising from its pad, disappeared out over the Atlantic, hurtling on toward...
...telegram was delivered to President Eisenhower just as he holed out on the 435-yd. first hole at the Newport Country Club. The President read it slowly. Press Secretary James Hagerty scratched an answer in pencil on the back of the telegram, handed it to the President. Ike changed a word or two, initialed the bottom: "DDE." The historic confrontation was arranged between the President of the U.S. and a governor of Arkansas who had wrought a lot more than he could handle...