Word: pencilling
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...fortnight ago, as she finished an afternoon snack, the carotid artery in the right side of her neck burst where it had been weakened by the cancer and treatment. Blood spurted halfway across the room. Mrs. Rogers took the first step toward saving her life by plugging the pencil-size hole with her finger...
...measures which would benefit only the wealthy. Rejoined Millikin: "Dear Senator, if that did not come out of your mouth. I would call it sheer claptrap-and it is still claptrap, even though it comes out of your mouth." From his safe distance, Millikin waved a long yellow pencil at Douglas...
...than a memory. Like the lamplighter that faded away over a quarter of a century ago, the doorstep salesman is fast becoming the victim of a cruel technology. The unending onslaught of bigger and better devices for the Good Life has added to his wares such items as electric pencil sharpeners and hair-scratching devices. And on occasion, he may even sell a Modern Magic water closet, a miniature reducing machine or even a toothbrush with a plastic handle to hold the paste. Even now his display case bulges to twice his size, and the New Devices spell a certain...
...This Silly Tempest." An hour after the President finished, Joe McCarthy scanned the wire reports, whipped out pencil and paper and started scribbling his answer. Soon he was barking orders to his scurrying staff: "Call the press gallery . . . Get a room where the television boys can operate ... Be a good girl, run some copies off." His reply to the President...
...come charging in, all 14 of them, bursting with pep and dog and devil . . . Milly throws on my desk two battered and scrawled anonymous sheets. 'Where's your name, Milly? You should write your name on your [home] work before giving it in.' She borrows a pencil from Alice, her companion in crime. Alice has a clip machine; she clips the pages together ... so that I cannot open them. I get possession of this mangled piece of work, have an argument with Milly about not sitting beside Alice, and we start the lesson...