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Word: penning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Upperclassmen lead the midshipmen on drills,and in orientation week they had to make sure thattwenty men got everything they needed to live,"says a freshman in Navy ROTC who did not wish tobe named. "They make you really responsible; ifyou lose a pen, it's like 30 pushups...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Preparing Today for the Military Tomorrow | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...fine spring day toward the end of my freshman year I picked up a pen and wrote the words "English and American Language and Literature" on a piece of paper...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: A Fatal Mistake | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...REST OF GANG'S HERE too--or at least most of the gang. Apparently, Woodstock's schtick isn't stock, and Sally, Marcie, and Pig Pen have been excised...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Baby Peanuts | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...state, and in 1964 he was sent there to earn his keep. Neither the isolation nor the climate stopped him from writing. As he testified in his poem "A Part of Speech," "I was raised by the cold that, to warm my palm,/ gathered my fingers around a pen." In 1972 the Soviets decided they could get along without a Joseph Brodsky. Against his objections he was shipped to Austria, where W.H. Auden, then living in Kirchstetten, helped the uprooted poet on his way to the U.S. There Brodsky became an ornament on university faculties, a familiar voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes From a Poet in His Prime Less Than One | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...N.P.A.'s sincerity," said a State Department official. On the whole, the Reagan Administration was relieved that Aquino's interim constitution brought an end to weeks of deliberation, but remained anxious about the problems ahead. "Mrs. Aquino was able to sweep aside the vestiges of Marcos' structure with a pen," observed a State Department official, "but how things get done is not yet clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Purging Marcos' Legacy | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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