Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contents and remarked, "I'm afraid most of these things are for boys." (Actually, many of them are for the President, e.g., half a dozen bottles of assorted potions and pills.) But he found an 1890 (the year of his birth) silver dollar and a white ballpoint pen for the girl, and a penknife for her eleven-year-old brother. As the other people who were promoting the cause filed out of the room, the President and the little girl were still rummaging happily in the big drawer...
...have all heard that the pen is mightier than the sword," writes Lieut. General Sir John Bagot Glubb, recently sacked commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, "but we do not seem really to have taken it to heart." Deprived of his sword by the young King of Jordan, whose family he had served since 1930, Glubb last week in Surrey, England, took to the pen...
...Assembly had never seen a group like the 53 Poujadists elected. None had ever been in the Assembly before. They ranged from hard-boiled ex-paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen ("I suppose I am different. I like women") to voluble Andre Gayrard, director of the national confederation of butchers. Some had been Resistance fighters, other collaborators or members of the fascist Croix de Feu. Most were small grocers, bakers, mechanics, shopkeepers; and each of them obeyed Little Pierre. Poujade leased a small hotel near the Louvre to house them, held a three-day conference to teach them parliamentary procedure...
When Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen and his nine comrades got to the hall, they were besieged by a mob of 5,000, beaten with knuckledusters, bottles, lead pipes and crowbars. Le Pen broke up a chair to make a club, battled his way clear. Only after the police decided the Poujadists had learned their lesson did they intervene. "In Toulouse, as in all France, Fascism will not pass," orated the mayor, and led the crowd in the Marseillaise and the Internationale...
Back in Paris, ex-Paratrooper Le Pen pointed the moral: "While Socialists in the government fumble, the Communists are taking over control of the crowds and leading them into the streets. This is the popular front forming at the base. Poujade knows what is coming. He'll be ready to take right action at the right time." In other words, only Poujade could save France from a Communist-dominated popular front...