Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...describes himself as an atheist, filed a federal suit charging that the exemption for kosher slaughter is not only inhumane but unconstitutional, on the grounds that it violates the principle of separation of church and state. Jews doubt that Holzer's suit will succeed. Meantime, a new slaughtering pen, patented earlier by the A.S.P.C.A. and approved by rabbis, may resolve the nonconstitutional issues. Using a sort of total harness, it lifts the animal slightly without causing it pain...
...last time the dollar was devalued -by a stroke of Franklin D. Roosevelt's pen in 1934* -Budget Director Lewis Douglas declared: "This is the end of Western civilization." It was a sign of the economic times last week that, when Richard Nixon announced another dollar devaluation, the predominant reaction throughout Western civilization was one of relief. Richard Kattel, president of The Citizens & Southern Bank of Georgia, expressed the new American mood: "I think devaluation is a good thing. It will make us more competitive overseas. We have swallowed the hardest pill we had to swallow -our pride...
...bloodiest was at Jamalpur north of Dacca, where the Pakistani battalion commander was sent a surrender offer by one of the three Indian battalions surrounding him. The Pakistani colonel replied with a note ("I suggest you come with a Sten gun instead of a pen over which you have such mastery") and enclosed a 7.62-mm. bullet. Apparently thinking the Indians were bluffing and that he was confronted by only a company or so, the Pakistani colonel attacked that night, with five waves of about 100 men each charging head-on at a dug-in Indian battalion. The Indians claimed...
...Fairbank. John M. Ward. Paul A. Freund and Paul A. Cantor. Francis M. and Paul M. Bator. Jack M. Stein and Christa Saas. Ross G. Terrill. Arthur Maass. The list is long, and could be longer. Our Christmas feelings grow still stronger, Yet fatigue is mightier than the pen, We could go all night and even thenFinal thought
...like a Freudian case history rewritten for the Reader's Digest -The Most Unforgettable Psychopath I Ever Met. After that trauma on the staircase, young Jimmy Graham's father Harry (Robert Mitchum) is eventually convicted of his wife's murder and sent to the state pen. Jimmy is dispatched to an orphanage. Fifteen years later, Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent) goes looking for his father. He has been paroled, and is now scratching out a living as a mechanic in a small town on the New Jersey shore, sustained by his girl friend (Brenda Vaccaro). Vengeance, not forgiveness...