Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exploring blighted U.S. neighborhoods, especially in Los Angeles and Chicago, posed both physical and emotional challenges for our correspondents. Notes Los Angeles-based Jon Hull: "For trespassers armed with only pen and paper, the scrutiny of the resident youth gang can be nearly unbearable. I passed through a gauntlet of youths with a pounding heart." His apprehension soon gave way to sadness. "While most Americans make a point of avoiding the bad side of town, those within dream of one day escaping. My depressing conclusion was that few will succeed...
...Dagliesh guesses, and as any astute mystery fan knows, appearances can be dangerously deceiving. Why would two men of such disparate social classes as Berowne and Mack join together in a suicide pact? Why had someone just weeks earlier sent Berowne a poison pen letter intimating his involvement in the deaths of his first wife, his mother's nurse and the family housekeeper...
Through their conversations, students have found pen-pals and made plans for externships during spring break. The Radcliffe Externships program places students as guests with alumnae whose careers interest them...
Sincerely, Your Pen Pal, Derek...
...became one reason not to start a family of his own. The other, more powerful rationale was his attraction to writing. In this matter, Troyat is particularly poignant, one might even say Chekhovian: "What was a woman to him, no matter how desirable, when his life was all pen and paper...