Word: pencilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday night after his resignation, Charles de Qaulle spent hours alone in his study at the Neuilly villa. At 2 a.m. a few watchers saw his long, pencil-thin silhouette at his lighted bedroom window. For a long time he gazed into the night...
...atom bomb was the creation of France's long-dead Henri Becquerel, who discovered radioactivity, and the Curies, who discovered radium. It was the creation of Albert Einstein, sitting quietly in an old sweater, keeping his speculative pencil always pointed close to the secrets of physics...
...Marks Music Corp.) of some 20,000 songs including barbershop favorites and the urbane ballads of Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Rodgers & Hart: of pneumonia; in Mineola, L.I. While song-plugging in Manhattan saloons during the gaslit '90s, he saw a customer paw a tearful waitress, whipped out a pencil, wrote straight from life My Mother Was a Lady...
...Ozark hills, near Vienna, Mo., a carpenter named Henry Westerman was killed by a delayed reaction from a hen's egg. Nineteen years ago a 12-year-old girl named Edna Adkins wrote her name and address on it with a pencil. The egg was sold, shipped to St. Louis, served hard boiled in a restaurant. Westerman got it, read it, ate it. Charmed, he looked up Edna, courted and married her. They had five children, the oldest of whom was a boy named Gene. Last week, because Edna had decided she liked Neighbor Ben French better than...
...pencil using silver instead of lead...