Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still do that, says Malone, who is 94, and spent 50 years compiling his six volumes on Jefferson, 5 1/2 of which follow the events that came after the moment of creation in July 1776. Common sense about the things that still plague mankind flowed from Jefferson's extraordinary pen for half a century after that date in papers, letters and laws...
...nine ("He always said he was going to have a baseball team," confides his aunt), has a deeply developed philosophy based on the principles of strict separation of powers and a disdain for far-reaching federal remedies for social problems. He has a peppery prose style and an acid pen: he once called the Freedom of Information Act "the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored." In a caustic critique of affirmative action, he facetiously proposed a system he dubbed "R.J.H.S.--the Restorative Justice Handicapping System," in which individuals would...
...would read us a Dr. Seuss book, and then suddenly she'd stop, turn out the lights and hide the book. The next day we'd tear the house apart looking for it so we could read what happened next." When Molly was six, Adele posed as her secret pen pal, writing and mailing letters to her daughter. "Every letter would reach a climax," Molly says, "with my secret pal hanging by a daisy off the edge of a cliff or over a pit of alligators. Then the letter would say, 'Well, have to go now. Write me back...
Quickly, the new deputy proved himself the fastest ball-point pen around; his pad spit tickets like bullets. "I was the only guy writing tickets," he remembers. "When I'd see somebody fighting, I'd arrest them. It looked to me like there was this look-the-other-way deal going on. The officers would spend a couple of hours in the coffee shops, then a couple of hours with friends, then back to the coffee shops. This place was wide open...
...five, his great-grandmother wrote to him, "You will be expected to be very clever, having lived always in Cambridge." The advice came late. Precocious Maynard, with the assistance of his father, a Cambridge don, had already begun collecting stamps and would soon go on to collect butterflies, pen nibs and numbers. Any numbers. Cricket statistics, people's heights and weights, train schedules...