Word: pens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Theatrically, it would not matter if Saroyan wrote first with an eraser−to wipe out reality−if afterwards, with a pen, he created magic. But this play has little magic: only a stab of pathos, now and then, in a wilderness of plight; or a flash of color, humor, poetry amid constant murmuration...
...stirred by the governor of Arkansas, still stood in the way of nine Negro youngsters who, by court order, were entitled to join 2,000 whites at Little Rock Central High School. Two aides and a secretary watched silently as President Eisenhower, his decision made, picked up a pen and signed a historic document: it ordered Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson to use the armed forces of the U.S. to uphold the law of the land in Little Rock...
Public relations has certain key words, characterizing the business world in endless multilithed news releases. Creative imagination (coupled with know-how, technical or otherwise) has supplanted Thinking Big-Brainstorm, feedback, humanation, engionomics, generalist, and Group-think--all are indicative of PR's dictionary vitality. Public relations poets pen such couplets as extinct by instinct, selection by inspection, and paralysis by analysis...
...million in $100-a-month pensions, medical benefits, and widows' and orphans' payments to a total of 215,702 beneficiaries. The $15 million left over after administrative costs ($3,900,000) brought the fund's reserve up to a record $145 million -a sum that pen can write and tongue can tell, but hand can hardly count...
Died. Gaetamo Salvemini, 83, Italian-born, U.S.-naturalized historian and author (What Is Culture?), longtime (50 years) professor of history (Florence, Pisa, Harvard), who fled Mussolini's Italy but continued to work his vitriolic pen against Fascism; after long illness; in Sorrento, Italy...