Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never Mind. In Boise, Idaho, Police Chief R. G. Haskin caught up with a motorist, whipped out his pencil and book, asked him his name, learned it was Aloises Zachary Abernathy Mefgenthenwallerberry, let him off with a little lecture...
...TIME'S apologies to wrongly identified Alaska Scouts Thompson and Seaton, a pencil and notebook to the misinforming photographer...
...Then they put their heads and hoards together, producing a script that Hope proceeds to tear apart-cutting, sharpening, fitting to character. Finally, before the Tuesday night broadcast (NBC -10 p.m. E.W.T.), there is a Sunday night sealed-in-the-studio tryout at which the audience acts as blue pencil and Hope runs hog-wild...
...observer sketches with a black pencil on a map printed in red. The transmitter, which is insensitive to red, sends only the black marks; consequently, if an enemy receiver intercepts the message, it shows only meaningless scrawls. But at headquarters the message is decoded by placing the transmitted sketch over a map duplicating the observer...
...riveter had a tiny steel splinter imbedded deep in his left eye near the retina. Unable to reach it frontally the surgeon laid open the back of the eyeball. Then an assistant moved a pencil-like divining rod over the surface until he located precisely the right spot. The surgeon made two small incisions, moved the tip of an electromagnet close, and out popped the splinter...