Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Margaret Gabrielle Long, 64, British historical novelist (The Carnival of Florence, Moss Rose) who turned out some 170 books under at least six pen names (including Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, Joseph Shearing); in London...
...outrage. "Where is Bolivia?" the Queen demanded. A map was brought and the Queen was tactfully shown that La Paz was much too far inland for the guns of a British man-of-war to force a suitable apology. So-says the legend-the Queen took a pen, scratched a few lines across the map and declared: "Bolivia no longer exists...
...strange pile of graphite bricks. The time was 9:45 on a morning just ten years ago. Italian-born Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi gave the signal for the experiment to begin. A cadmium control rod was slowly drawn from position. Geiger counters clicked. Control lights flashed. The pen in an automatic recording device moved over graph paper in a rising curve. At 3:45 Dr. Fermi calmly announced: "The reaction is self-sustaining; the curve is exponential." A chain reaction had been achieved and the first decade of atomic energy had begun...
...mural of old New York; music floated in through loudspeakers. Everyone who showed up got a free piggy bank and free chances on 18 prizes ranging from a new Mercury to a trip to Bermuda and Nassau; those who opened accounts of $5 or more got pen & pencil sets...
...know best: sudden and violent death. Solemnly, at "an old mill presided over by an ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...