Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fight." For half a century, no clever Egyptian politician would be caught in the open before a crowd without echoing this familiar vote-catching cry. One day last week, Egypt's strong man of three months, General Mohammed Naguib, who likes to call himself a simple soldier, scratched pen on paper, and the issue and the cry vanished. Instead of insisting on sole control of the Sudan, Naguib agreed to let the Sudanese themselves, operating under a new constitution, decide their own political future...
...United Nations. Over the $3,500,000 structure, as big as four football fields, nutter the flags of 72 nations. Leading up to it is a "Path of Nations" made of stones from the four corners of the earth. The building is the new plant of Parker Pen Co., whose global-mindedness has made it the biggest penmaker in the world...
Trip Abroad. Parker, who likes to describe a fountain pen as "a controlled leak," got his first introduction to foreign markets when he went to France and Germany to study. Later, after a stint as a Navy flyer in World War I, he went to work for the family company, persuaded his father to start a British subsidiary. Said father George later: "We lost $100,000 the first year because we did not understand the British temperament. We have become wiser since...
Short Answer. Recently, sales of the Sheaffer Pen Co., spurred by the new Snorkel pen, have been closing the gap on Parker. To help counter the threat, Parker is trying to diversify its pen line too. Three years ago, it brought out the Parker "21," small brother of its alltime bestseller. This fall Parker introduced two new models priced between the "21" and the "51." Parker also marketed (under French license) the first U.S.-made butane-gas cigarette lighter, the Flaminaire, is now tinkering with another...
Wyndham Lewis knows only one way to use a pen-as a spit. Over hissing coals of satire and irony, the British author-artist has broiled intellectual quacks (The Apes of God), ailing civilizations (Time and Western Man), and his own middle-class countrymen (Rotting Hill). Like Bernard Shaw, he outraged Britons in the '303 by following the trail of a sawdust Caesar, Adolf Hitler. But in 1937, when Shaw was busy touting Superman Stalin, Lewis became one of the first writers to bare the tyrannic fraud of Communism in a novel called The Revenge for Love. By ripping...