Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund of sometimes chilling, sometimes ludicrous lore. It reveals that on Nov. 22, 1963, the day John Kennedy was killed in Dallas, a high-ranking CIA officer named Desmond Fitzgerald was meeting in Paris with a Cuban secret agent known as AM/LASH to offer him a poison pen outfitted with a hypodermic needle. As a long-secret CIA report said, "It is likely that at the very moment President Kennedy was shot, a CIA officer was meeting with a Cuban agent and giving him an assassination device for use against Castro...
...told about the doctors' announcement of Franco's setback, Arias apparently rushed to El Pardo Palace to get a signature on a document transferring authority to Juan Carlos. The doctors, however, stopped the Premier from entering the sickroom, warning that "it would kill Franco to take a pen in his hand...
...beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish," wrote Arnold Toynbee, who had been covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Manchester Guardian. Before he went to sleep that night, he took out a fountain pen and jotted down "a list of topics" on half a sheet of paper...
...them. Did the film maker require an outdoor theater for a few atmospheric shots? He hired the 17th century theater at Spoleto for a week and transported the whole cast and crew thither in pursuit of the desired images. Was the script not quite right? Gordy took pen in hand and wrote the line that he says encapsulates Mahogany's philosophical essence: "Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with." Such creativity sent Mahogany $1.25 million over its original $2.5 million budget...
Hoffa's style resonates--Overdrive magazine reports that 83 per cent of the truckers responding to a poll favored Hoffa's return to the Teamsters' general presidency. His rough fidelity is returned in kind: while in prison, truckers making deliveries to the Lewisburg pen drove past his cell window and shouted manly encouragement. Hoffa's other obsession--the crusade against Frank Fitzsimmons, his handpicked successor as Teamsters' head--is not only the product of a power-mad boss, but the outraged sense of a regular guy whose wife has been raped by his best friend...