Word: pens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Czechs immediately branded Meeker "a bandit" and charged that their troops had been fired on before they began shooting ("Goddamnedest lie I ever heard," said Meeker. "The most dangerous weapon on board was a ballpoint pen."). Though the West Germans were uncomfortably mulling over the various laws he had broken, including filing false flight plans, he is likely to get off with a wrist slap. More worrisome to Meeker were the uninsured damages to the helicopter, which could cost him anywhere from $23,000 to $39,000-unless a benefactor turns up to bail...
...fiddling from time to time with the new dentures that are said to give him considerable discomfort. Just before he was due to speak, the Soviet leader mopped his face with a handkerchief, combed his hair and underlined a few more phrases in his speech with a red ballpoint pen...
...skip payments for the past seven years. As a result, the fund is almost drained. Still another stratagem is to push certain expenses into next year's budget and pull next year's revenues into the current budget-all by a stroke of a dexterous pen. To help balance the 1974 budget, for example, the city moved up water billings by six months. In the following year, of course, it had to borrow to make up the deficit...
When students return to class next fall and pen the traditional compositions entitled "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," an unusually large number will have to write: unemployed. Some 2.7 million youths aged 14 to 21 are temporarily flooding the labor force looking for summer jobs. Instead of seeking only to put cash in their own pockets between school terms, many will be trying to balance the budgets of families whose older members are out of work. But so few summer jobs are being offered that the teen-age unemployment rate is likely to rise well beyond its already high...
This spring the paper-and-pen jocks tabbed the Harvard baseball team as the squad to beat in the Greater Boston League (GBL) and the Eastern Baseball League...