Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kangaroo Courts. When the order to move went to the next pen-Compound 78-the inmates, who had watched the battle of 76, lined up meekly and were taken away. Compound 77 was next, and it was here that Bull Boatner made his one tactical mistake of the week. He gave 77 a day's advance notice of the move, and the Communists inside used their last night to execute antiCommunists. After the evacuation, 16 bodies were found, hacked, beaten or strangled, tossed into water-filled ditches, jammed into metal drums, and even hidden under hut floors. Compound...
...Cremated Pen. As the war dragged on and news trickled in of mass deportations of Jews, Anne became desperate. She had terrifying fantasies about the death of Jewish friends. Often she saw "rows of good, innocent people accompanied by crying children [walk] on and on . . . bullied and knocked about until they almost drop." With appalling prescience she wrote that "there is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end. Jews and Christians wait, the whole earth waits; and there are many who wait for death." When her pen fell into...
...looked about for additional sources of income. He entered a contest, the object of which was to find a successor to one Annie S. Swan, who was about to retire at the peak of a successful career writing "romances for factory girls." Campbell submitted two stories, one under a pen name, the other under his fiancee's name. The stories won first and second prizes, and his fiancee was offered a contract, as first prizewinner, to become Annie Swan's successor...
...Into the presidency of Parker Pen Co. stepped Bruce Mouat Jeffris, 56, a veteran °f 33 years with the company and boyhood friend of Kenneth Parker, who is moving over to chairman. A graduate of Brown University and the Navy, Jeffris has been vice president and treasurer for Parker since 1947, is expected to hold down the presidency until Kenneth Parker's son Daniel, 27, is ready to take over. Directors last week moved ex-Marine Dan Parker, the third generation in the company, up from secretary to executive vice president...
...hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp; pen...