Word: pens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regularly welcomed him by clapping, stomping then-feet and screaming, "Win, Jesse, win!" Crowds punctuated his litanies with wild applause and shouts of encouragement. In Pittsburgh last week, appealing for more federal aid to education, Jackson intoned, "Full scholarship to Penn State, four years, $20,000. Full scholarship, state pen, four years, $90,000. Train our youth! Train our youth! Train our youth!" Applause and cheers rose to screams with each repetition...
...extracting I phrases muffled by Hoover's cigar I and high collar and directed at the ; opposite wall, but after a while he got the knack. He also deciphered Hoover's handwriting, no easy task. The President wrote many of his speeches and messages to Congress in pen on legal sheets. The problem, as Hopkins recalls it, was that Hoover's words began legibly enough but tended to end with a straight line as his mind outraced his fingers...
...appearance of his first true verse, "Digging." It announced, as William Butler Yeats announced in one of his own early works, that a vocation was being sought: "Living roots awaken in my head./ But I've no spade to follow.../ Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests./ I'll dig with...
...follows this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, would not a printing press itself also serve as an illicit aid to reproducing copyrighted material without permission? Why not also ban pens, since they too can be used to copy down protected material? After all, the bulk of student plagiarism from copyrighted material goes via the pen from the text to the note card or legal pad. Imagine this same Kroft arguing in some medieval court that peasants illegally pass on the tales of the traveling minstrel and so demand that some farmer's tongue be removed...
...example, the finding of sunspots, which were also seen by other 17th century observers. He wrote in a highly flamboyant style, scorning a scholarly Latin for vernacular Italian in order to reach a broader public. Among those who felt the bite of his pen were Jesuit astronomers. Some members of their order had originally supported Galileo, but by the time of his trial, they had died off and their hostile successors sharply attacked him as he faced the Inquisition...