Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Large Scrawl. The circumstances surrounding the will's discovery were mysterious. As a public relations executive of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) was sorting through the mail on his desk one afternoon, he came upon a tattered yellow envelope. The envelope, bearing a partly illegible Las Vegas postmark, was addressed to Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Mormon church. Inside the first envelope was a smaller one that bore instructions written in a large scrawl. They ordered Kimball to deliver the enclosed will to legal authorities in Clark County, Nev., "after my death...
Edmund Blunden, a poet, elaborates a Syndrome theme when he recalls the endlessness of war in that attack on the Somme. "By the end of the day," he writes, "both sides had seen, in a sad scrawl of broken earth and murdered men, the answer to the question. No road. No thoroughfare. Neither race had won, nor could win, the War. The war had won, and would go on winning." And after carefully building up evidence for the recurrence of this theme since that time, Fussell quotes this headline from The New York Times: "U.S. Aides in Vietnam/See an Unending...
Until recently, independence had been an issue for only a few malcontents. Now and then somebody would scrawl the initials F.L.A.-for Frentede Libertação Açoriana, the Azorian Liberation Front-across a road...
Because writing was specifically proscribed by prison rules, Speer had to work on his memoirs secretly. Using sheets of toilet tissue, the backs of calendar pages and scraps of note paper, he wrote in an almost indecipherably small scrawl. Then he hid the notes under the sole lining of a shoe or inside a bandage kept wrapped around a leg to relieve his phlebitis. To smuggle out the scraps, Speer had the help of a few friendly guards. One of them was a Dutchman who served as a forced laborer in German factories during the war, but received what...
...Harvard that are true but seem somewhat abstract. Harvard's just been around so long that it's relatively easy to think about it as solid, consistent and unchanging. The plaque on the Lowell belltower may say Cognosce Occasionem--like the "Seize the time" Black Panther sympathizers used to scrawl on black boards in high school--but Harvard seems so much less transient than any high school, and its walls so far removed from the prisons where the government used to throw the Panthers, that the plaque hardly has much effect...