Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union defenses held, and the rebels were sent into rout. For Timesman Wilkeson, there was glory, but little pleasure in victory. At the height of battle, he had found the crushed body of his son, 19-year-old Lieut. Bayard Wilkeson, a Union artillery man. "My pen is heavy," he wrote that night. "Oh, you dead, who at Gettysburgh have baptized with your blood the second birth of Freedom in America, how you are to be envied...
...what a Kennedy Administration could do for the Negroes, but what the Negroes could do for John F. Kennedy on Election Day. In wooing Negro voters, Jack promised that there would be "much" new civil rights legislation, that he would end discrimination in housing with a "stroke of the pen." A few weeks before Election Day, the Kennedys brought off a political coup by intervening when Martin Luther King was jailed in Atlanta for leading an anti-segregation demonstration. Bobby telephoned the judge in Atlanta in an effort to get King sprung. Whether or not the call actually swayed...
...life of the Civil Rights Commission for two years. In 1962, and again in 1963, the President's legislative recommendations almost exclusively concerned voting rights. Not until last November did Kennedy get around to fulfilling his campaign promise to abolish discrimination in housing with a "stroke of the pen." That act came after Negroes had taken to mailing him pens as sarcastic reminders, and even then it was a grievous disappointment to Negroes because of its limited scope...
Ginzburg marshaled 65 psychologists, sexologists and assorted literati to testify. Lillian Maxine Serett, who wrote The Housewife's Handbook under the pen name Key Anthony, told the court, "Women's role in sex is widely misunderstood. Women do have sexual rights." Essayist Dwight Macdonald testified that he found inoffensive a "photographic tone poem" in Eros showing a nude Negro man and a nude white woman in eight pages of assorted full-color embraces. But when it came to Liaison and The Housewife's Handbook, even Macdonald drew the line. They were, he said, "vulgar...
Founder Parker boasted that his pens could write in any language, but after World War II, under his son Kenneth, the company was slow to read some handwriting on the wall. It consisted of one word: ballpoints. "The ballpoint pen," said Kenneth Parker at the time, "is the only pen that makes eight carbon copies without an original." Parker finally got into ballpoints in 1954 after developing what it considered a good point. Luckily, it was shored up meantime by the success of the "51," which was introduced in 1941 and is still the world's bestselling pen...