Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beat the language barrier between man and machine. Itek has, in effect, hitched the digital computer to the draftsman's stylus. With a photoelectric light pen, the operator of an EDM can formulate engineering problems graphically (instead of reducing them to equations) on a console that looks like a flat, unflickering television screen. The operator's designs pass through the console into an inexpensive computer, which solves the problems and stores the answers in its memory banks in both digitalized form and on microfilm. By simply pressing buttons and sketching with the light pen, the engineer may enter...
...novelist, born Aleksei Peshkov, had taken the pen name for the same reason...
...sipping Brazilian coffee out of an English cup, eating Swiss cheese. He has Persian rugs on his floor. He probably just got out of his German car after seeing an Italian movie. He's sitting at a foreign-made desk writing his Congressman a letter with a ballpoint pen made in Tokyo, asking 'What the hell is happening to the gold...
...Robert Talbert, four veterans of the bunker, are sitting up talking--mostly about girls. (Charles) McDew...is curled into the concrete and the wall; Harold Robinson, Stephen Ashley, James Wells, Lee Chester Vick, Leetus Eubanks, and Ivery Diggs lay cramped on the cold bunker; I'm sitting with smuggled pen and paper, thinking a little, writing a little; Myrits Bennett and Janie Campbell are across the way wedded to a different icy cubicle...
...words of Judge Brumfield, who sentenced us, we are "cold claculators" who design to disrupt the racial harmony (harmonious since 1619) of McComb into racial strife and rioting; we, he said, are the leaders who are causing young children to be led like sheep to the pen to be slaughtered (in a legal manner). "Robert" he was addressing me, "haven't some of the people from your school been able to go down and register without violence in Pike Country?" I thought to myself that Southerners are most exposed when they boast...