Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bustled over to the State Department and signed the now standard Mutual Military Assistance Agreement* with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a ceremony which lasted 3½ minutes. ("Well, that's all there is to it," Dulles was heard to mutter as he put down his pen and stood...
...most of the time. But every now & then, doctors have a case in which a patient has no memory for names at all-not even the names of close kin. It may get so bad that he forgets the names of common articles, so that when he wants a pen he will ask for "something to write with," though he can pick the right name out of a list. Nerve specialists have given this complaint a number of names; the University of Virginia's Dr. Cary Suter. who has studied it closely, likes "anomic aphasia" best...
...Mabrûk, Mabrûk!" (congratulations), murmured Stevenson and Naguib to each other as they signed the blue-paged agreement. Naguib, his face a picture of glee (see cut), held aloft the fountain pen and said: "I will send it to the museum." Newsmen and photographers hugged and bussed him; guards, overcome with emotion, bent to kiss his hand, were told sharply: "Give me a strong handshake. That would be better." From Washington came a strong handshake: "This Government is highly gratified...
...polished limning of his day to create a graphic shorthand of his own, which amounted to putting space in parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems, as another man would scrawl his name, he sketched fence, farmhouse trees and far-off mill into deep, cold stillness...
...hand and pen...