Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week came news that in a decree signed by his Minister of the Pen, the Emperor has decreed a drastic restriction of missionary activity in Ethiopia. Hence forth missionaries must not attempt to convert good Copts. They may maintain their hospitals and schools, but only if they teach those "principles of Christianity common to all Christian churches...
...going to live." He made a vertical incision in the exact middle of the wounded man's neck stopped the blood as well as he could,' made an up & down cut in the windpipe, which he wedged open with the top of a fountain pen. "Now," he said, "keep that pen in your windpipe and you'll be O.K. You can't breathe through your nose or mouth, but if you keep your windpipe open with the pen, you can breathe through the cut I made...
...minutes the rifleman felt better. He stood up, fingering the tip of the fountain pen. A passing tank carried him to the battalion aid station. There the surgeon stared at the queer arrangement in his neck and sent him on. Next stop was the clearing station, where Captain David Dunn of Westminster, Md. removed the pen top, put in a regular tracheotomy tube (which the air passes through, not around, as in the case of the makeshift wedge...
...fulfilled: the Philharmonic played the premiere of Commander Wooldridge's Solemn Hymn for Victory-and the Wing Commander appeared in person to take his bows. Critics and audience agreed that he was a more finished virtuoso with the 50-cal. machine gun than with the composer's pen, but applauded him for both achievements...
...Dabney's talk has long plagued conservative Virginians. As editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, he has tilted his pen at almost every Southern household god. He has offended the Solid South by urging its return to the two-party system. He has outraged the Baptist South by criticizing prohibition and fundamentalism. He incensed the cheap-labor South by leading a campaign which resulted in the shortening of the Virginia work week for women from 60 to 48 hours...