Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he had grafted skin from one human to another unrelated one, implanted human corneas in rabbits, and transplanted adrenal and parathyroid glands from animal to animal. But after appearing before the committee for a total of eight hours, Summerlin-in addition to admitting that he had used a pen to touch up the mice-conceded that no successful corneal grafts had occurred. The committee found that the results of his gland transplants were at best equivocal...
...Hall to end a barbarous solitary-confinement system at the Oklahoma state penitentiary. His demands for tax reform finally helped to produce legislation that included the state's first income tax on dividends paid by Oklahoma-based corporations. At the bill-signing ceremony, Governor Hall handed Troy the pen and remarked, "This is your program." Troy's most passionate cause is education. Says he: "Everything Oklahoma hopes to be is bound up in the classrooms." Partly because of his constant needling, the legislature has doubled textbook funds, reduced the state's ratio of pupils to teachers...
Thieves is not so much about its easy and obvious morals--we are all thieves; you can rob with a pen too; bankers, when robbed, even cheat on the insurance claims; depression and capitalism force us all to continually steal from one another in order to live--as about some regained, lyric beauty from the lost, mythical world it shows. (Mythical worlds always seem to be lost ones, too.) At least what it does best is this: not say anything but show at least the outline of this world of surface and detail, of atmosphere and appearance...
...students asked 271 state senators, assemblymen and members of their staffs to sign, and 111 refused, variously dismissing the petition as a dubious proposition, probably illegal, and poorly worded at best. When Governor David Hall was presented with it, how ever, he examined the document quickly, took out his pen and signed at once. He immediately recognized the wording of the petition as the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
...novels to date, is a spring chicken compared with Zane Grey, creator of 89 extra-large books (approximately 9 million words) between 1904 and 1939, or Max Brand (Destry Rides Again), who could turn out 14 pages an hour, and managed a total of 25 million words and 13 pen names before his death...