Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owner, a tough-minded, salty-tongued communications czar and yachtsman named Ted Turner, signed up the game's most sought-after right arm in a reported $1 million deal engineered by-of all people-a fan who took the negotiating authority upon himself. With one stroke of the pen, the moribund Braves had a bright new look. The signee was a handsome, 30-year-old, bubble-gum-chewing pitcher named Andy Messersmith, a free spirit and free agent whose victorious legal battle against baseball's "reserve clause" was reshaping the entire sport...
Something like the Wizard of Oz, who spoke to the world in a disembodied voice from behind a huge paper head, Howard Hughes for the last ten years of his life communicated with his business staff chiefly by memos. He wrote down his instructions in pen on yellow legal pads, and the memos were delivered by his loyal Mormon retainers. His handwriting, though unstylish, was clear, but when he was nervous or overwrought he splattered his memos with word and sentence changes. Most of the missives went to Robert Maheu, his trusted top aide until the two men broke...
...pantheon of Hindu gods, Saraswati is the goddess of pen, ink and books. She must have given the young Godden sisters a double blessing. Half a century later, the ex-colonials are still writing with fecundity and style-often about their childhood in India. Jon, 70, has just produced her tenth novel; Rumer, 69, her 15th. Rumer has also written poetry, stories and children's books. In addition, the Goddens have collaborated on two volumes: Shiva's Pigeons (1972) and the highly acclaimed Two Under the Indian Sun (1966), a memoir of the years spent among the textures...
Instead of a social life, the young Virginia had her books. When she was not reading she was writing, at a peculiar four-foot desk, at which she stood to work, like a painter at an easel. "When I see pen and ink," she wrote to Lady Robert Cecil, "I can't help taking to it, as some people do to gin." This was her exercise and her liberation...
...Hill, Democratic Congressman Jim Lloyd of California scanned a letter from seven liberal colleagues last week. They urged him to support their drive to reduce sharply President Ford's proposed all-time high ($113.3 billion) defense budget for fiscal 1977. With no hesitation, Lloyd took a felt-tipped pen and scrawled a bold, red NO across the top of the letter, then underscored the word three times for emphasis...