Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left regretfully, but the continual fear of bodily harm, jeering harassment, the lack of orderly law enforcement and the apathy of many public officials gave me no other choice. (Arriving at my residence to investigate the fourth break-in within six months, the officer proceeded to borrow a pen so that he could write the report on the palm of his hand, having no paper...
...opium down Thai country roads, bullying his way past police checkpoints into Cambodia. He arrived in Saigon in June for a scheduled meeting with the Phantom, but was arrested. When the Phantom arrived at Tan Son Nhut airport, Berger fingered him. He turned out to be one Wan Pen Phen, a middle-aged Chinese with both Taiwanese and Thai papers. Police say Phen routed 4,500 Ibs. of opium monthly through the area. In July, the cops arrested Luu Phuc Ngu, a prominent Saigon hotel owner, his son Luu Se Hon, and Phen...
...enough vision for everybody. Other men had swapped complex packages of securities in their companies to stitch together glorious empires. Ling could do all that and make it sound different and better. When making presentations to potential merger partners, he would take a piece of chalk or a felt pen and sketch marvelous projections of future earnings. He sounded like a cross between an evangelist and Univac. Not even the financial experts fully grasped how Ling intended to meet his predictions, but they were eager to advance him money. They wanted to believe...
...most popular items. The national campaign, which is still going on, has drawn more than 1.6 million requests and cost Hunt-Wesson $83,000 for new trees. Similar regional promotions have been run by Sun Oil of Philadelphia, Elanco Products Co., an Indianapolis agri-chemical firm, Columbia Pen & Pencil Co. of New Hyde Park, N.Y., and Forkner Publishing Co. of Ridgewood, N.J. Beyond its immediate success, the program indicates that businessmen and naturalists could well work together in easing other ecological problems while benefiting themselves and the public...
...McQueen, lowering himself onto a snorting Brahma bull called Sunshine. The rodeo announcer tells us some basic facts: Jr. was a two-year bull-riding champion, now nearing 40, a bit past his prime, Sunshine has never been ridden for the full 8 seconds time. The gate to the pen is thrown open, clowns dressed in baggy checked pants and vests and red fright wigs lure the bull out and get him jumping. Bonner holds on to the rope knot as if his gloves were glued to it, but his ass is thrown off the bull's hump as soon...