Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young man?" she questioned, putting a fresh nib in her Victorian wooden pen...
...Pen Pals. In Tuscumbia, Ala., Prisoner Herman Byrd cut through the jail wall on his second escape try in three weeks, left a note to Sheriff Raymond Wheeler: "Gone again, Raymond old buddy, I hate to do this but it looks like I have got to go. I hope to have better luck this time," clambered through his hole, surrendered to deputies who had heard him hacking away and were waiting on the spot...
Hippocrates, retained his faculties until the end, died (according to Cicero) with "pen in hand" at 80. Michelangelo worked hard as chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica up to his death at 89. Titian, whose birth date is in some doubt, was about 94 when he painted his great Battle of Lepanto, was between 96 and 99 and working on the Pieta at his death. Izaak Walton compleated revising The Compleat Angler at 83. John Wesley was preaching regularly at 88. Benjamin Franklin was a power in the Constitutional Convention at 81, served as president of Pennsylvania...
...came grizzled old Casey to talk with his pitcher. Casey decided to stay with Duren but when Brave Joe Adcock pumped a single to center, moving the potential tying run to third base, Stengel summoned Bob Turley from the Yankee bull pen. Turley had to face Frank Torre, a left-handed batter hitting for Del Crandall...
When he landed at New York's Idlewild Airport, a woman from his publisher's office met him with a copy of the unsigned, poison-pen letter-neatly typed, grammatically written and essentially correct. "Harry Golden," it said, "is an ex-convict" who once ran a stock-racketeering Manhattan "bucket shop." Barrel-shaped, cigar-chewing Harry Golden smiled long and thoughtfully. "I've been expecting it for some time," said...