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Word: penned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saudi Arabia's King Saud keeps some $20 million there, and Jordan's King Hussein has several secret accounts (he signs his checks on one account with a pen name, "The Eagle"). Such depositors appreciate the fact that Lebanon has one of the world's freest capital markets and a Swiss-like secrecy law so rigid that any loose-tongued banker can be jailed for two years. Beirut's safety has also impressed some of the usually suspicious sheiks of the Persian Gulf. Sheik Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi, who earns $1,000,000 a week from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Beirut: The Suez of Money | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

These drove his sense of alienation to the edge of madness: "What flowed from my pen at that point-an octopus with eyes of flame, a twenty-ton crustacean, a giant spider that talked-was I myself, a child monster." He also gradually became aware that he was very ugly, "a toad," walleyed, short, "not quite a dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pen Is Not the Sword | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...deserves. Thus man is absurd, but he must grimly act as if he were not. The books and controversies were yet to come; but at the end of this confession, filled with self-loathing though incapable of self-pity, Sartre dryly admits: "For a long time, I took my pen for a sword; I now know we're powerless. No matter." There will be more books. "What else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pen Is Not the Sword | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...have a long-felt desire to have a girl pen-friend from U.S.A. But, how to get an address of a girl from these was a great question to me for several months. Fortunately I got your address from the magazine "Look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Eastern Question | 10/6/1964 | See Source »

With earnestness, I request your honour to kindly give me an address of a girl so as to make myself have a pen-friendship with her. With unshakeable faith in your mercy on me, I am writing to you this humble letter from India. Please help me. Aysnefnanam

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Eastern Question | 10/6/1964 | See Source »

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