Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later, so did Tracy. After an 18-year courtship, he finally wed his blond sweetie Tess Trueheart, and, says Gould: "I left Tracy a little more handsome than he was in 1931." In 1977 Chester passed on his pen to two young successors, Rick Fletcher, and Allan Collins, after "46 years, two months and 21 days on the job." But he is grumpy about the current strip. Says Gould: "I drew it as a law-and-order exercise from the start. But today Tracy has become part...
Nyci's parents have been no help at all. The father began taking mock bites at the newborn calf, and had to be put in a separate pen. The mother showed no desire to feed her firstborn. Nyci downs two quarts of a formula-milk, heavy cream, casein, Lactaid and vitamins-piped daily into her stomach by keepers who have to swim out after her and pull her to the side of the pool for a feeding...
...Huey Long, would have found Helms incomprehensible. "Anybody that lets his public policies get mixed up with his religious prejudices," Long said, "is a goddamned fool." But Helms, heedless, faces the crowd this day in bleachers on the parched crab grass and delivers a sermon. He rhapsodizes about his pen pal Alexander Solzhenitsyn's dedication to freedom and Christianity. He flagrantly overstates Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century observations about American piety. Most of all, he praises God. "The Lord is speaking to us: 'I have need for thee.' To uphold the principles and the laws, to be dedicated...
...pen that dashed off vitriolic criticism to academics became compassionate when everyday folk asked for spiritual advice. To a German prisoner contemplating suicide: "Regarding your prayers. How do you know they are in vain? God has his own time, and he may well know the right moment to lift the double shadow that now lies over your life...
Most people are reluctant to write letters because they feel they must produce a masterpiece every time they pick up a pen. It usually turns out that the receiver is so happy to get a letter that the literary style is ignored...