Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each place where the Wall has been breached: eight celebrated holes in the ground where East-West tunnelers surfaced; the spot on the River Spree where 14 East Berliners turned pirate and steered an excursion boat to freedom. On the Wall's grey blocks of compressed rubble they scrawl elaborate imprecations against East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht and his commissars; one of the politest avers, "They think like Eichmann." And wherever Germans from the other side have died trying to escape Ulbricht's prison camp, West Berliners mark the spot with crosses that seldom lack...
Each morning the President arrived at his West Wing office carrying an armload of newspaper clippings and memoranda written in his hasty scrawl. One morning, staffers found him in the mail room, opening letters himself and writing instructions across them. In his eagerness to get things done, Kennedy has developed a "prodding list" of matters that he feels he must pursue, has learned, as all Presidents do, that he sometimes has to ask three times to get things done. On his telephone, the President has installed a console of pushbuttons, enabling him to bypass secretaries and instantly reach the inner...
...writes to TIME? As the editors face up to mail by the armful, it often seems that the whole cross-section of their readership has an opinion to deliver. M.D.s scratch notes on prescription pads; travelers scrawl on postcards; housewives pause in their day's rounds to comment on such subjects as religion, politics, nuclear weapons...
...three "kiddos" and a picnic lunch in a car, she personally visited Texas weekly editors, persuaded 44 of them to buy "The Worrier's Guide" for $1 or $2 a column. As "Jan Webster," she plows through some 120 letters a week, often squinting at an eight-page scrawl of a distressed farmwife, edits the most interesting to a printable size. A "Dear Jan" sampler...