Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles), he found that "the clouds were in the palm trees," lost precious time working a radio letdown procedure. Customs officials pestered him. "They wanted me to sign a thousand papers. I was taxiing out, and the customs man ran after me. I just tossed him a fountain pen...
...forms of things unknown, the poet's pen...
After Molotov's Paris walkout (TIME, July 14), the Soviet Union hastily buttressed its economic spite-fence. In 30 days, twelve new trade pacts were signed between Moscow and satellites, or satellites and satellites. Shotgun treaties herded satellites more snugly into the Soviet economic pen. One rueful, resigned Rumanian characterized a Soviet trade agreement: "It is more blessed for us to give than to receive...
...Baltimore citizens wear out an average of 25 postoffice pen nibs a day, snitch another five, ruin some more by using them as nail-cleaners, reported P.O. Custodian Howard Walter...
...daily*) that come to the zoo have had to content themselves with substitutes. They watch six monkeys and two house cats play in the huge polar bear caves, stare at the modest antics of a Jersey cow, now the sole occupant of the wild boar's pen...