Word: pens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having written a dozen letters of protest in as many weeks, and having returned to stores spoiled chicken and dispensers that failed to dispense, we are left with small vic tories, much unnecessary mileage, enormous frustration. We'd throw in the pen. but this is the one that always leaks...
...want to give one word of warning, however. Never complain to anyone while sitting on a ski lift. A year ago while in As pen, I happened to be riding a lift with an automobile executive...
...convention hall: "Everything was so high, so big. I was lost. There were people everywhere. It was so exciting. If you could breathe in the atmosphere, I was doing it. My hands were shaking. I got so confused, I tried to write with my cigarette and smoke my pen." When the colors were presented, "waves of patriotism swept over me. I hadn't sung The Star-Spangled Banner since grammar school. It felt real good. I actually got chills...
...couple. The tape is fed into a machine that measures muscular micro-tremors in the voice, faint quivers that come from the muscles in the voice box and cause slight changes in pitch. Changes are not detectable by ear, but they can be traced on a chart by a pen linked to the machine. It is the capacity to detect and reproduce these tremors-apparently produced by the freely undulating throat muscles of a relaxed speaker-that gives the P.S.E. its awesome powers. For the throat muscles of a person under stress are so tense that they produce practically...
...born and with its breath and body heat kept the child from dying from the cold. Wilson adapts this myth for the tale of his own hero's nativity. The newborn Pedro is lying in his mother's arms, when his father's bull breaks out of its pen and, as in the earlier myth, keeps the pair alive. Later Cuscat's followers will believe that the bull must have been his soul come to save...