Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minneapolis suburb of Apple Valley, a middle school teacher startled his students with a warning about the Desert Shield pen pals to whom they had been writing since September. "You need to prepare yourselves," Todd Beach told the class, "because there is a possibility that the people you are writing to might...
...good if you're kept in the slammer for a night without proper amenities. That is precisely how much U.S. District Judge Morris Lasker last week ordered the city's correction department to pay every suspect kept for more than 24 hours in a holding pen that rates below minimal standards. The unusual decision culminates more than a decade of feuding between Lasker and the city over the condition of its jail cells, many of which do not have beds or toilets and sinks...
...moment he handed back the program and pen to me the crowd began to press forward again, and I was shoved aside. In the commotion, I dropped the pen that I had been clutching in my right hand. I debated for an instant whether to bend down and pick it up, fearing that I would be crushed...
With that, he gently urged the man aside and stooped down to ask my name. He was an awesome figure in his black tuxedo, perspiring and visibly fatigued as he was. He took the blue pen I offered and proceeded to sign my program book "To Rachel--Best wishes, Leonard Bernstein...
...next person in line had forgotten to bring a pen, and strangely enough, this caused a slight commotion. "Does anyone have a pen I can keep?" Bernstein asked above the noise...