Word: scrawl
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Challenged Council. On the domestic side, one of Nixon's first important official acts was to sign the executive order creating his Cabinet-level Council for Urban Affairs. He used the ceremonial multipen technique, complaining that his name was too short and his scrawl too undisciplined to allow for a legible signature and a large number of souvenirs. But the name appeared as clear as his intention to make the council a vital body, the domestic equivalent of the National Security Council...
...astoundingly unfunny, unoriginal and tasteless. Dr. Krankeit (Jewish and author of the prize-winning Masturbation Now in the book) becomes a quack surgeon of Italian descent in the movie. The marvelous, obscene Aunt Livia character is transformed into a grotesque nymphomaniac, about as funny as a scrawl on a public bathroom wall. Candy herself becomes an aimless slut--hardly what the original work intended...
...finds hippies under every bed. He accuses them of mindless sloganeering, but then goes on to scrawl his own slogans: "Negro jazz is masochistic"; "This is the generation that uses the word Love as a synonym for Hate...
...Castro invited newsmen to inspect photostats of its source?some doubts remained about its completeness. U.S. Freelance Writer Andrew St. George, who had seen the original, called the Cuban text "hasty, doctored and bowdlerized." Some errors in transcription were almost inevitable: Che's handwriting was a tiny, jerky scrawl and, in the course of his tortuous marches through Bolivia's rough terrain, parts of the text had been blotted out by sweat and rain...
...Brontës' native vil lage of Haworth, the better to hear the moaning of the Yorkshire moors that the girls loved. She has read 20 years' worth of Blackwood's magazine to trace the sources of Charlotte's erudition and deciphered trunkfuls of childish scrawl to interpret her juvenilia. If the result is not the vivid portrait that Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote right after Charlotte's death, it is more complete and accurate-an exhaustive source of Bront...