Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Referring to restrictions on the admissibility of wince-tap evidence, Kirk said, "I would like to have all the powers of electronics at my disposal. I think it's time we started fighting crime with something other than a quill pen...
...bachelor household was how to obtain writing paper, domestic help and food-fish, oysters and Hungarian wines were his special favorites-as cheaply as possible. That was important, since Beethoven was one of the greatest penny pinchers who ever lived. He was delighted to receive a fountain pen that held ink for five days, to hear about a new fragrance for men that supposedly was better than eau de cologne. In his last years, he made a brief effort to master one of the few arts he had never learned as a child -multiplication...
...House and Senate. Because the bill had grown by $1.1 billion over Administration requests, Nixon proclaimed it inflationary and promised to veto it. Last week in a presidential first, he explained his case for ten minutes on network television and then, with a flourish of his audibly scratchy fountain pen, signed the veto order in prime time. "The issue," said Nixon, "is not whether some of us are for education and health and others are against it. The question is, how much can the Federal Government afford to spend on these programs this year...