Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, on the request of retiring President Lee, the trustees named a special committee to investigate the whole Beaty affair. But John Beaty was carrying on as usual. From his pen came another pamphlet, plaintively crying that the label "antiSemitic" was nothing but a smear aimed at people who are genuine antiCommunists. It certainly was not a tag that could possibly apply to good old John Beaty. "I have no feelings except feelings of friendship," said he, "for pro-American Jews...
...spent as much as six months on a single drawing, plying pen & ink as minutely as an embroiderer does needle and thread. By including endless details in her early works, she achieved great mastery of textural effects. Her most recent drawings are done in half the time and are even more effective. Now she can make a single smudge of graphite do what required 100 pen strokes a couple of years ago. But her major works still resemble tapestries as much as anything; they are not easy to place in a specific tradition...
...Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was one of the busiest mathematical dons Oxford had ever known, but he was much too cranky to want to be well known. Letters addressed to him under his pen name...
...Life I Give." Tennessee's Percy Priest rushed to Roberts' side and fashioned a tourniquet from his necktie and fountain pen. Representatives Walter Judd and Arthur Miller, physicians, gave first aid to Bentley, before the Capitol's medical staff reached the scene...
...plane, then describes the movements and feelings of individual soldiers as if he himself had jumped off for both sides. In Moscow, the Russian confusion is described with authority. For Plievier, an old-line Communist, had been in Russia himself since 1933, served Stalin throughout the war with his pen and on the radio...