Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever glad Mr. Reasoner and Mrs. Luce pinned your ears back. Indeed your pen is mightier than the sword-and as venomous as a snake...
...during the last ten years. Thieves Like Us, based on Edward Anderson's novel, concerns a trio of bank robbers in Mississippi in the 1930s. It is the Depression and more than ever, people have to steal from each other to live. The banker, of course, steals with his pen and his brain, and when the bankrobber steals from him, the banker inflates the amounts missing to get more insurance. The world is in a mood to make heroes, which it does with radio programs like Gangbusters or the election of F.D.R. (a broadcast of his second inaugural provides background...
...food is delivered to the pens by trucks, which are routed by computer. When an empty truck pulls up to Farr's $1 million feed mill, the woman operator perched in a control center (so well sealed that the air smells of ozone instead of the all-pervasive manure) spots the truck's number and identifies the feeding pen it is delivering to. She inserts a punch card carrying dietary instructions for the animals in that pen into the computer, which automatically dispenses the proper proportions of food into the truck. The truck then drives slowly along...
When the race began, it shaped up as a battle between two big, custom-built racing machines, the 74-ft. ketch Pen Duick VI from France and the 72-ft. ketch Great Britain II. Both are captained by veteran sailors. Pen Duick Skipper Eric Tabarly won a singlehanded transatlantic race in 1964; Great Britain II's captain, Chay Blyth, made a solo circumnavigation three years...
...call number of the book is then typed into the machine to associate the serial number with the call number. The light-pen is then passed over the encoded strip on the borrower's bursar's card to associate his serial number with the call number and serial number of the book...