Word: quilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the steel pen was replacing the quill around 1800 A.D., the world thought it had chipped and scratched its way to some kind of penman's peak. But steel pens could be pushed no faster than 30 words a minute. By 1867, no less than 51 men had tried and failed to invent a machine that would write faster. The 52nd, Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, succeeded. And in its own way, the typewriter started as big a revolution as the mass-produced Ford...
Michael J. Quill, president of the Transport Workers Union of America, offered "all our support" to the independent Federation of Yale University Employees Friday night, but the Yale union declined "at this time...
There was a columnist called Fulton Lewis, Jr., and he was as different a man from John Hancock as 180 years could produce. He called the Community Church's speakers left-wing and radical. He would have said that of John Hancock when he signed his name in broad quill strokes to the Declaration of Independence...
...Stabilizer Mike DiSalle had his try. The delegates obviously weren't interested in what he had to say. They chatted among themselves and paid so little attention that, at one point, DiSalle broke into his prepared speech and asked them to listen. The Transport Workers' bellicose Mike Quill finally quieted the crowd when he rose and threatened to throw out of the dining room the next "guest of the banquet" who uttered a sound. DiSalle then went on to say that "in an inflationary defense economy, the strong unions must be careful they do not improve their members...
...Mike Quill immediately grabbed that ball and ran. See, he said, how the mere threat of a union helps the policemen...