Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comfortable chairs, hold a pair of push buttons in their hands, and listen to a pro gram. When they like what they hear, they push the right-hand button. When they don't like it, they push the left button. Each button is electrically connected with a pen which draws a continuous line on a moving paper tape pulled under it at a constant speed of approximately one inch every five seconds. When a button is pressed, an electric magnet jogs the pen a quarter of an inch, keeps it off the apathy line until the button is released...
...filed out of Mem Hall through the mob of shouting salesmen Vag smiled in triumph. The years were telling. Never before had his pen retained its flourish to the last of these interminable signatures; never before had he strutted so jauntily through the crowd, shoving Coop agents aside with arm free of the dreaded writers' cramp. He grinned broadly when he remembered the look of dismay which had covered the faces of the members of the War Service committee when he had handed them back their Questionnaire, blank and neatly torn through the middle. He'd done...
...laurels were somewhat ill-begotten, however, for he was coached throughout the whole process by his brother, Caleb Brokaw '43, who apparently had prior knowledge concerning the ritual of signing up. Brokaw Major even went to the extent of taking pen-in-hand himself so as to insure that no time would be lost...
London of the Bank Holiday, Whitmonday, while a gusty wind blew the cold rain down Downing Street. The next day the formal signing, with Churchill's gold-bound pen, took place in Eden's red-leather-chaired room under a bust of the younger Pitt...
...walls details of composition which tourists could never properly see-gritty old men with hair in their ears, powerful brooding figures as lonely as those of Michelangelo, heavy-hoofed chargers, pictures of fire and terror, men bowed under back-breaking loads. They have also dug out of obscurity original pen-and-ink sketches, such as Nude Men Fighting About a Standard, showing how spirited the artist could...