Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newsday gave the presidential message a wary editorial greeting ("We are pleased . . . but he must first spell out our responsibilities"). And Alicia insisted on the last word. "His answer was too general," she said. "He has to do more than ask." Then she sat back to see if her pen pal had more...
...this ancient act of lese majesty, Dame Edith took pen in blue-veined hand, rattled her Tibetan bracelets and administered a crushing snub to Villiers David. Wrote she: "I am surprised that after your insolent references to myself, Sir Osbert and Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell [her younger brother] made in verse some years ago, you should have the impudence to invite me to waste my time at your show...
Nights, the two men lie in rat-infested village huts, hating each other. Days, they struggle on in a chorus of mutual complaint. Without quite meaning to, McNair takes over the physical and mental leadership. Mukasa regresses into a childish envy. He steals McNair's fountain pen, notebook and aspirin, or perversely argues that Africans are obviously "inferior" to Europeans. McNair is at last goaded into shouting at Mukasa, "You god-damned black monkey...
...answer to the problem was hopping around a nearby pen. Dr. Adams inserted the fertilized ova in the womb of a female rabbit and shipped her by air to South Africa. There, four days later, Dr. George Hunter in Pietermaritzburg flushed the ova out with sheep's blood serum and found them still healthy. Transferred to ewes of low degree, six of them are about to be delivered as highbred English lambs...
...Moscow. Presently, for reasons that Raab professes still mystify him, the Russians consented to give Austria the state treaty that they had denied it for ten years. Molotov personally went to Vienna to sign the document, and when he did so (with a U.S.-made, gold-plated fountain pen at 11:34 a.m. on May 15, 1955), it marked the apogee of Julius Raab's career...