Word: pens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beach, a bearded vendor offered a backrub to anyone who bought his bagels. I would like to try tightrope walking, said Rick as they watched the great whoever tiptoe through the air. But I would not like to try everything. Sammy contemplated the weight lifters in their pen. He eyed the girls, their tiny bathing suits disappearing in his squint. Another sunset, he thought...
...cavernous "room," as the main trading hall of Lloyd's of London is called, a clerk still enters (with a quill pen) the names of newly sunk vessels in an upright ledger that, in past years, has held the names of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Above hangs the Lutine bell, salvaged from a Lloyd's-insured British frigate, which tolls to announce a maritime loss or other disaster. That bell should perhaps now be pealing for the venerable insurance institution itself...
...vehicles only via a narrow forest road and surrounded by double chain-link fences 12 ft. high that send out an alarm at the slightest touch. With its narrow-windowed dormitories, the village bears an unfortunate resemblance to a prison; it will, indeed, become a minimum-security federal pen after the Games...
...themselves. To the long list that includes Samuel Pepys, James Boswell and Virginia Woolf must now be added the name of Cecil Beaton, who died last month at 76. For half a century he roamed the halls of fashion and fame with a folding Kodak and an acidulous pen...
Beyond the fact that much less communication is handwritten now than it was in the days of the quill pen, experts point to several causes of scriptural sloppiness. Some blame a spreading weakness of will. Says Sam Toombs, a Houston psychologist: "Bad handwriting is a way of saying something and taking it back at the same time. People scrawl signatures on material for which they don't want to be held responsible." Others cite the hurried nature of modern society, in which speed is given a higher priority than clarity. Pen makers decry poor instruction: while courses in calligraphy...