Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Khrushchev was surely under pressure, he did not act like a fellow on the skids. He sent a note to his poison pen pal Mao Tse-tung politely declining Mao's invitation to talk over the Sino-Soviet split in Peking (TIME, March 22). Instead he invited Mao or a group of colleagues to Moscow. Suggested time for the confrontation of quarreling Communists: in the spring or summer, "which are good seasons of the year in our country...
...fast-selling Thermo-Fax, a dry method that uses heat from an infra-red lamp to form an image on specially coated papers. But the Xerox machine had a special appeal. It is a dry method that needs no chemicals, can duplicate anything from grease pencil to ballpoint pen, though it is more successful in copying type than photographs. The 914 makes copies by projecting the image of the original document or object onto an electrostatically charged drum coated with a sensitive element called metallic selenium. The machine automatically sprinkles the drum with a black powder that adheres...
Said the West Point Yearbook Howitzer in 1944: "Another four-star general? Maybe. But he wants to be a writer." In 1950, he earned an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia, while his father was president of the university. Last week the pen finally proved mightier than the sword for Lieut. Colonel John S. D. Eisenhower, 42. Ending a nearly two-year Army leave of absence to research Dad's unfinished memoir on The White House Years, Young Ike resigned his commission to join Manhattan Publishers Doubleday & Company. Inc. as a nonfiction editor of history and biography...
Anyone who has ever used pen and ink ("the black liquor with which men write") has cause to be grateful to Dr. Samuel Johnson, who compiled what was almost the first and for a long time the best dictionary of the English language...
Japanese take to haiku as naturally as Canadians take to hockey; 1,000,000 Japanese habitually spend their leisure hours composing the 17-syllable poemlets. But the delicate work of a writer called Tetsu (Iron) is unique in the world of haiku. Tetsu is the pen name of the Rev. James Tetsuzo Takeda, 62, a witty, convivial Episcopal priest whose haiku are brief meditations upon the mysteries of the Christian year...