Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pen where Moses and his family kept their goats at night was covered with a grid of heavy wire. When a visitor wondered about it, Moses explained, "Leopard comes at night to take the goat." Around every Masai enk'ang is built a sturdy fence of thorn and cedar to keep the lions out. One day, walking in the forest, Moses shouldered an enormous slab of cedar to add to his boma. "The lion makes me do a lot of work," he remarked. Sometimes the barricades do not hold, and the Masai wake to the bawl and crashing of cattle...
...began with an instructive story. I will end with another. In 1966 the Soviet Union experienced its first great dissident event of the post-Stalin era -- the trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, writers whose books were published in the West under the pen names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak. Somebody had revealed their real names, and they were immediately arrested on orders of then KGB Chief Vladimir Semichastny. I was one of the Soviet writers who protested that trial...
...Philadelphia, whose city fathers hope to attract millions of tourists for the Constitution celebrations, a local planning committee called We the People 200 intends to license mementos including T shirts and reproductions of the pen used by the signers in 1787. Still, the group insists commercialism will be kept to a minimum. "We're not looking to junk it up," says Executive Director of Programming Fred Stein. "We don't have an official toilet seat, nor will...
...Conley Elms, chasing a poacher, trekked to Dallas' winter quarters at Bull Camp, a secluded stretch of sage about 110 miles south of Boise. They confronted Dallas and searched his camp, where they discovered deer meat and bobcat hides. Pogue, a no-nonsense officer with a flair for pen-and-ink sketches, told the poacher he'd broken the game laws. An argument ensued. Though Dallas claims Pogue started to draw first, the jumpy poacher blasted Pogue with his .357 Ruger Security-Six revolver, then spun and nailed Elms. He finished them off with a .22 Marlin rifle bullet behind...
...after five years at Harvard, with a year teaching at Oberlin in between, Robison is about to hang up her red pen. "There simply isn't any extension on their side, and I have two books five years overdue, so there simply isn't any extension on my side. I reached a point where I was a better teacher than a writer...