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Word: penned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were ushered into the Kremlin for more of Khrushchev's camaraderie. He autographed their short-snorter bank notes, received with thanks a map showing the point where Soviet and American troops first met before V-E day. When Alexander Lieb of Sherman Oaks, Calif, gave Khrushchev a ballpoint pen as a souvenir, Nikita, laughing, handed over a more expensive fountain pen in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Be Kind to Americans | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...down his pen and quit taking notes. He heard no more of the lecture, he was too involved in the task of working his rubbers off his feet. He wiggled discreetly in his chair, pushing one heel against the other until, finally, his Cordovans stood naked to the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

Qualification for Office. In Komensky, Wis., after being elected town constable, Joe Payer had to put off assuming the duties of his new office until he served a stretch in the state pen for breaking and entering into a filling-station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Write & Light. A combination ballpoint-flashlight, made in West Germany, is being sold by Chicago's Crittenton Manufacturing Co. A flick-on switch directs a circle of light onto the writing surface, makes pen handy for use at lectures, in theaters, on night tables or as a pocket flashlight. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Author Suckow, now 66, lives in California, but not even painful arthritis can stop her pen. She has several books going, and there is nothing in this new one to suggest that Iowa will ever leave her blood. Wooden in plot and undistinguished in writing, The John Wood Case finds its strength in an evocation of the kind of life that the nation may never know again, a society in which the Bible was a fact of life, in which an austere Sunday dinner was eaten in the presence of a blackboard which bore "discussion themes" for the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Real Were the Virtues | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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