Word: pens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Callaghan, 55, was bound to be one of the biggest losers from the devaluation. For three years he has had the melancholy task of explaining Harold Wilson's economic policies and defending the tottering pound. When Wilson finally devalued, Callaghan sat down on the same day to pen his resignation...
...onetime Washington columnist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. His 30-odd books of politics, economics and biography (La Guardia, Drew Pearson) were always bright, often incisive studies of the times and its men. His syndicated column, "We, The People," written from 1936 to 1948 under the pen name Jay Franklin, crisply and authoritatively chronicled the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations -and Carter scored one notable coup when, almost alone, he predicted HST's 1948 election victory...
...pen down, it would be gone when I turned my back. The stealing's gone up incredibly this year," a stationery saleswoman said...
...major changes--reorganization of the comptroller's offices and the introduction of interim budget reports--will bring the college's financial procedures "from the quill-pen to the IBM," Britten said...
Later, when he had forsaken evangelism for a career as an artist, Van Gogh used the pen and pencil as a way of storing up details or of working out the organization of scenes he wanted to do in oils. In the last ten years of his life, he produced 800 oils and an even larger number of preliminary drawings and watercolors. The process of distilling the essence of dozens of sketches into one painting "was something like an electric discharge," says Vincent W. Van Gogh, his nephew and chairman of the foundation from whose collection the current display...