Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Police Commissioner Otávio Camargo later described the scene, "Boys and girls were heaped up in the farmhouse, sleeping in canvas beds or on the floor, and since there wasn't enough room in the house, many took cover in corrals. There were pigs in one pen, people in the next." The youths had planned to meet at 7 a.m., elect new officers and melt away, but neighboring peasants tipped off police. Breezing past a warning shot fired by a student sentinel, São Paulo cops rounded up all 739, carted them off in trucks and Jeeps...
...short hair, and, notable among his expressionless features, straight-staring, hard-looking eyes. While speaking, he lines up his green blotter with the bottom of his desk. He runs his thumb along the ridge to make sure the blotter edge are even. Then he places his square pen stand in the bottom right hand corner of the blotter. That leaves him, finally, with only my information sheet, with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with the blotter edge. All this time, his feet are planted wide beneath the desk...
Many are the housewives who pen poetry in their spare time. But few have so lofty a goal as Mrs. Harold Wilson, 52, wife of Britain's Prime Minister, who once wrote...
Sorel is at his acid best with subjects he actively disdains or dislikes. "Caricaturing," he explains, "is essentially therapy for me. It's a way of taking away the feeling of impotence one has about a situation." In their vitriol, Sorel's pen-and-ink drawings lean somewhat on Levine. But in their artistic style -the absurd settings, the disproportionate figures-they trace back much more directly to Sir John Tenniel, the Victorian artist who illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...after Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia. If Evtushenko was indeed the author, it was a bold and surprising act. Once the daring young man of Russia's liberals, in recent years the poet has become a kind of safe Establishment rebel. He wielded a careful pen, which earned him gaudy trips around the world, reading his works as a representative of the nation's arts. There was some suspicion that his protest telegram might be a forgery, possibly committed by the Soviet Secret Service, which has been known to use this method when it wants to incriminate...