Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million in $100-a-month pensions, medical benefits, and widows' and orphans' payments to a total of 215,702 beneficiaries. The $15 million left over after administrative costs ($3,900,000) brought the fund's reserve up to a record $145 million -a sum that pen can write and tongue can tell, but hand can hardly count...
...pen can write, no tongue can tell, no vocabulary of language is large enough to express the many benefits that will come to the American coal miner and his family through the establishment of the Welfare and Retirement Fund...
Died. Gaetamo Salvemini, 83, Italian-born, U.S.-naturalized historian and author (What Is Culture?), longtime (50 years) professor of history (Florence, Pisa, Harvard), who fled Mussolini's Italy but continued to work his vitriolic pen against Fascism; after long illness; in Sorrento, Italy...
...peasant masses provided the popular base for the Communist conquest of China, the fact is that much of Mao's earliest and most influential support came from the dedicated mandarin intellectuals-who flocked to the Communist cause. One such was pretty, zealous Chiang Ping-chih, who under the pen name of Ting Ling was regarded, at 21, as one of China's finest playwrights and novelists...
...made high explosives," had a change of mind and surrendered to authorities. He told Red officials he had been "coerced" by Nationalist agents in Hong Kong, and a grateful Peoples' Council decided that this full and frank confession deserved a reward: they gave him a fountain pen. Communist informers also uncovered a plot in Tsinghai "led by intellectuals and financed by capitalists" who planned to overthrow the regime. The plotters' goal, said Radio Peking guilelessly, was establishment of "government by all the people...