Word: pencilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each five yard stripe he would reach down, pluck twice apparently at blades of grass, then hold his hand extended up in the air. He would not look up at his extended hand. However, when he brought his hand down he would look at it and jot down with pencil and paper his findings. He did this the entire length of the field and then reversed it, going back up the field, stopping at each five yard stripe and going through the same proceedings. He only did this on one side of the field to my knowledge. He then left...
...highest rating of any on the ABC network, and that the Nelson family shares an annual income of $350,000. When he was 24, Ozzie drew a competitive satisfaction from the fact that he was already making more money than a Supreme Court Justice. Last week some rapid pencil work by Ozzie revealed that he had been outdistanced by his teen-age sons: David and Ricky now each earn more money than is paid the President...
...were no further interrogations, but the Communists applied other pressures. The worst to bear was the isolation: Dean was always lonely, but never alone. For three years, he saw no other American, was under the constant armed surveillance of eight North Korean sergeants. For a year he had no pencil, whiled away the time working out mathematical problems mentally. "If I didn't," explained Dean, "I felt I would lose my wits." For a time he had a Chinese checkerboard, but when his guards kibitzed too much, he broke the board in a fit of anger...
...Wunderbar," "So in Love," and "Were Thine That Special Face," are, as might be expected, given the full treatment. More surprising, however, Petruchio's lusty songs, "I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua," and "Where is the Life that Late I've Led," escaped the Hollywood blue pencil...
...both the violence and the cheating were small scale: the democratic process, triumphed. Some 4,200,000 Filipinos went to the polls to mark ballots with pencil and thumbprint. In the cleanest, calmest election in their six years of self-government, they elected vigorous, colorful Ramon Magsaysay, the Philippines' first authentic "man of the people." by a 2-to-1 landslide (2,890,401 to 1,292,395), gave Magsaysay's Nationalist-Democratic coalition a whopping majority in the House (67 to 31, with 4 still in doubt) and a solid one in the Senate...