Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door opened and President Harry Truman slipped in, beaming. He was handed a veterinarian's hypodermic syringe-a horrible weapon with a needle as thick as a pencil and huge glass cylinder full of a gummy looking red fluid. He prodded the recumbent reporter. Vaccaro winced and the President said, "This won't hurt a bit, Tony...
Early one morning last week, Sid McMath rushed into his office. His shirt and trousers were rumpled, his face haggard and unshaven. The reporters were waiting. McMath had two folded sheets of yellow paper in his hand. On them, he had written a statement in pencil...
...withdrawn. Foreign economic aid (meaning U.S.) must be subject to a commission that included Russia. Otherwise the situation would end in the servitude of Greece. (Later, Gromyko?who has conscientiously learned to speak excellent English even though he persists in speaking Russian most of the time?poked a pencil at the translator and said that he had meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention cannot be concealed in bushes." As usual, Gromyko dragged his listeners around the same point through interminable repetitions. His reasoning was pervaded by the sublimely simple conviction that...
Meteorites can be ruled out, Mather continued, because the gravitational pull of the earth fashions them into a pencil shape. Also they have an entirely different trajectory from that attributed to the discs, and once inside the atmosphere they invariably collide with the earth...
...proposal reads, "The undersigned men hereby formally petition the repeal of the unreasonable Lowell House summer rule that coats be worn in the dining hall on these sweltering summer days." The words "unreasonable Lowell" have been crossed out in pencil...