Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toad gave up pen and pencil years ago, when he discovered the Smith-Corona manual portable typewriter. Toad loved his Smith-Corona. He played upon it like a flamboyant pianist. Now he massaged the keyboard tenderly through a quiet phrase, now he banged it operatically, thundering along to the chinging bell at the end of the line, where his left arm would abruptly fire into midair with a flourish and fling home the carriage return...
...between First and Third World feminism becomes most apparent in looking at how each group relates to the power of the pen. For example, Jill Tweedle's investigation of Indonesia's massive contraceptive campaign points out that increasing female literacy does not necessarily grant women more control over their reproductive status. Ironically, the government's indoctrinating methods impose even further restrictions on a woman's freedom of choice...
...draft pages came to him by the dozens in a blue folder, and he would take them out, unclip his ballpoint pen and write down his own ideas on a yellow legal pad. When the moment of truth approached, the speech was just a dozen double-spaced regular pages...
Albright dashed to the streetcar, flung his long frame on board and beat the courier to the White House, where Legislative Clerk Maurice Latta was also moved by his enthusiasm and promised to slip the bill into the President's night papers and even try to rescue the pen used in signing. A few hours later, Albright picked up a phone and heard the magic words: "The President signed the bill...
Though he is now nearly 96, Albright can recall what he did next. "I went right down to the postal telegraph office and sent Mather a night letter: 'Park Service bill signed nine o'clock last night. Have pen used by President in signing...