Word: pens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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France, in its lust for oil, appears to have thrown to the wind all constraints of morality, good sense or even self-interest." Those piercing words emanated from the pen of a British Member of Parliament whose name still rings with authority: Winston Churchill, the grandson of the wartime Prime Minister. Charged Tory M.P. Churchill, 39, who on matters of Middle East politics is a fervent supporter of Israel: "The French government has taken upon itself, with a recklessness not shared by any other nuclear power, including the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China, responsibility...
...fear of writing set her phone ringing. Workshop led to workshop. Wounds healed. One woman went directly from a Kuriloff session to a motel, rented a room for the weekend and wrote. And wrote. And wrote. Another set down, miraculously, as it must have seemed to her, "My pen is shaking in my hand. I am about to write...
...where writers from Chaucer to the Brontës have a monument or tomb. A week ago, Eliot at last got her place among the poets. In a centennial observation of her death, a black memorial stone was set in the Abbey floor and dedicated to Mary Ann Evans (pen name George Eliot), the maverick Victorian in whose hands, said one speaker, "the novel became a moral force...
...Times," I requested and reached for my reporter's notebook and a pen which slipped in my oily hands...
...Help--Teachers Can't Teach" tells of one teacher who "suffered a literal case of 'teacher burnout." Returning from lunch one day, he found flames leaping from his classroom window." Another mother despairs, "How do you tell your chid that contrary to what the teacher says, pin and pen are not homonyms?" But virtue lives on in some corners. One teacher "scrubs the desks in her classroom herself and sweeps the floors three times each day. Says she: 'Kids sense the order, and they like it. They behave differently in a clean classroom...