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Word: pens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always seemed to me that anti-liberals who take pen to hand, like George Will or that effete maniac William F. Buckley Jr. are fairly intelligent. And while the anti-libertarian-militarist tradition can be bastardized and profanely expressed in ignorant, duosyllabie terms (pick up the latest "Worker's Vanguard" and you'll see what I mean the anti-liberal argument...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Life on the Bench | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

...brisk October morning last year, Henry Liu, 52, a businessman and part-time journalist, was shot dead by Asian gunmen outside his home in Daly City, Calif. Liu's widow suspected that the murder was politically motivated. Under the pen name of Chiang Nam (River South), Liu had written books and articles that assailed Taiwan. "It was a terrorist killing," said Jerome Garchik, Mrs. Liu's lawyer. "Henry Liu was killed to silence his work and also to intimidate Chinese living in America." U.S. officials say that Liu had apparently acted at various times as an agent or informant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Startling Admission From Taipei | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...January 6, approximately 30 felt-tip pen-armed students decorated the walls of a third-floor--hallway with colorful depictions of such unusual creatures as ants, mushrooms, a zebra, Oscar the Grouch, an octopus, God, and resident tutor Thomas I. Barkin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs Residents' Zoo Mural Makes Cabot Officials Roar | 1/18/1985 | See Source »

TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE by Norman Mailer. An imaginatively plotted murder mystery with metaphysical overtones, from the versatile pen of an irrepressible spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best of '84: Books | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Then Howard grabs Casey by the head, holds him down and strikes him again and again above the eyes. The action looks faked, but no one seems to mind. Casey is down, in seeming agony, twisting his body like an animal buckling in a slaughterhouse pen. As his pain subsides, Casey gets up, his face filled with righteous anger. The crowd calls for retribution, for redress of grievances and victory for Casey. Suddenly Casey pins Howard. "Casey nailed that cheating bastard," avers a man in the front row. Justice is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Wrestling with Good and Evil | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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