Word: pense
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using six pens to be handed out as souvenirs, President Eisenhower signed the proclamation in the White House at 12:01 p.m., Jan. 3, 1959 that admitted Alaska to the Union as the 49th state. Last state to be admitted: Arizona, Feb. 14, 1912. Reason for the precise timing: the...
Using six more pens, the President next signed an executive order designating a new 49-star national flag to become official on the Fourth of July. Design of the new flag: seven staggered rows of seven white stars set in a blue canton within the field of 13 alternate red...
-Pascal: Pensées (circa 1656)
We find Joy Buzzers, Trick Squirt Badges, Rubber Hunting Knives, Soap Cigars, Soap Pickles and Soap Chocolates, Exploding Fountain Pens, Plate Palpitators, and Shoe Squeakers. There are Imitation Gold Teeth, Cuckoo Clothes Brushes, Rubber Swollen Thumbs, Bunged Up Eyes and Joke Teeth and Tongues. There are, of course, Itching Powders...
A few short years ago the docile Navajo Indians grubbed about in their 25,000-sq.-mi. desert reservation at the four corners where Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico meet. Disease-ridden, undernourished, ignorant, they lived in ramshackle hogans and crumbling shacks, contemplating a future as bleak as their...