Word: pens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these policies were put into effect with a stroke of the presidential pen. But many other recommendations in Nixon's energy message depend on congressional action. Most important is a measure that strikes at the root cause of present natural-gas shortages-the regulatory system. Federal regulation has artificially held down gas prices, thereby increasing demand while decreasing incentives for exploration for new reserves. Nixon proposes to remove all "new" natural gas from those price ceilings...
Meanwhile son Danny is wreaking havoc with the reporters He has comandeered a pen and a notebook and is recording his own impressions of the whole scene. Someone rolls a yellow Spalding tennis ball over and he picks it up and throws it at the refreshmen table...
...decamped to the Indians, and burrowed into a cave, leaving his diary of reminiscences and prophecies as testimony to the historicity of counterculture. Historicity or no, Joshua Aarons lends the author an opportunity to affect a Victorian prose style, demonstrating that Richmond can in fact do more with his pen than mumble, groan, and bump through the motions of sex and stoned-out soliliquies...
Wesley's oral biography traced and highlighted events in the life of the "pioneer in the rescue of black people..., the literary knight with a plumed pen" when Du Bois was one of only two blacks attending Harvard in the late...
Died. Robert L. Conly, 55, senior assistant editor of the National Geographic magazine, who under the pen name Robert C. O'Brien wrote a prize-winning children's book (Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH) and last year's top-rated cloak-and-dagger tale for adults, A Report From Group 17; of a heart attack; in Washington...