Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Easy Position. The tribute was well earned. Lacerda has been fighting with his fists, his booming voice and his pen ever since he started out as a reporter on a daily in Rio at 14. Grandson of a Brazilian supreme court justice, Lacerda worked closely with Brazil's Communist Party, which two of his uncles had helped start, often led student strikes and demonstrations against the government. In 1935, with the police on his trail, he was smuggled to his grandfather's mango farm in the false bottom of a coffee truck. Four years later he broke sharply...
...that something was radically wrong. One little boy confessed that he could not read the postcards his mother had sent him from Honolulu. A teen-age grocery clerk had to admit that he could not read handwritten orders. Another boy told his mother that he could not decipher his pen pal's letters. A little girl said she could not sign her name "because I can't do capitals." Last May six mothers and fathers finally formed a Parents' Research Committee to look into the matter further. Was there any valid reason, they wanted to know...
...Sonnim looked on Lee as "a great man." He had few possessions, but those he had he valued highly: a Parker 51 pen, a Ronson lighter, U.S. Army pants and a North Korean cap. He did not drink, he had neither wife nor mistress. In his personal household of 20, sexual intercourse was forbidden; drunkenness, even at the "Russian dances" which Lee occasionally organized, was forgiven three times, then ended with a bullet. "Lee himself hardly spoke at all," said Koh Sang Kyun, his aide-de-camp whom the South Koreans captured early last year. "He didn...
...Okayed the resignations of 1) Chrysler Corp. Board Chairman K. T. (for Kaufman Thuma) Keller, director since 1950 of the Defense Department's Guided Missiles Office, 2) Craig R. Sheaffer, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Sheaffer, Iowa pen manufacturer, had been on the way out ever since his attempt to get Allen V. Astin fired from his post as Bureau of Standards director detonated the great battery-additive debate (TIME, April...
...dead, obedient voice, he had worked secretly with the Nazis during the occupation to keep the people "meek and cooperative." He had helped American officials to "prepare a new war." Ex-U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane had paid him off for his espionage with a gold fountain pen and large sums of money...