Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end neither Scotland Yard nor the newspapers had reported a single actual crime or victim, or any evidence to decide the question posed by one tabloid: "Mass murderer or vicious poison pen?" But the story had produced some evidence about British journalism. Most Britons and some Americans believe that the country's rigid press laws are superior to U.S. standards. Yet the laws have bred a technique of trumpeting sensation with small regard to facts. The very inability to name a suspect emboldens editors to print gossip and rumor about what he may have done. Whether...
...films as Breaking the Sound Barrier, it parades plot and props (including an enormous mocked-up spaceship) that could have been scissored by a small boy from the back of a cereal box. Its improbabilities do not begin or end with an unlikely character named Lefty who appears to pen notes with his right hand...
...water, then lay down on a bed, fully dressed and in no discomfort. Beneath the bed was a magnetometer detector (a small rectangular box). Wires from the detector led to the control room, where members of the research team watched the magnet's movements recorded by an automatic pen...
With the subject at rest, the pen recorded gentle waves about 20 seconds apart. If he was given a tricky mathematical problem and became tense, or if he was startled by a starting gun fired near his ear, the waves sped up. In another subject, they might stop entirely. The magnetic capsule gives the researchers plenty of time to work: they have made recordings for as long as five hours. The same technique could be used a day or two later, as the pellet slowly works its way through the digestive tract, to determine how the intestines contract...
Richard III. Dirty work at the Tower of London as reported by the propagandist pen of William Shakespeare and chillingly played by Sir Laurence Olivier (TIME, March...