Word: penmanship
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...Pittsburgh, the nation's fourth educational TV station, WQED, began regular telecasts of three hours and 15 minutes a day, five days a week. Sample program: The Historical Importance of Pittsburgh, Penmanship Through the Ages, Children's Hour, Home Workshop,, and You-the Artist...
...simply pushing her over a bannister into a stairwell. That way Rhoda got an opal pendant which Mrs. Post had promised to leave her when she died. Rhoda was seven then. Rhoda was a good student. In the old maids' school she tried earnestly to win the penmanship medal. When she lost it to another student, she snatched it from him at the annual school picnic, then shoved him off a dock and drowned him to cover the theft...
...Long before the printing press was invented, literate men and women were putting their thoughts on paper in the cursive or script penmanship that has continued to be used to this day...It remained for Brookline with its still-to-be-justined passion for progressive education to reject the writing method preferred by the civilized world and to substitute a system that bears a striking similarity to the crude hieroglyphics of the ancient Phoenicians. The world isn't apt to move back for Brookline's benefit; so it would be more sensible for Brookline to get into step...
...outburst of penmanship had brought the refinery to a virtual standstill and produced 1,200 grievances. Only one appeared legitimate; a worker complained that his section of the plant was not properly ventilated. Others urged that the refinery negotiator be dumped in the nearby Houston Ship Channel, that the company provide workers with an on-the-job burlesque show; a third said that he got his pants wet from dew on weeds outside the refinery. Protesting that the union was pulling an illegal version of the sit-down strike, Crown Petroleum closed down the entire refinery for safety reasons. Later...
...days later, King George VI was sitting at his Georgian walnut desk in the lofty blue and white study of the palace, reading the morning's mail. Among the letters with embossed headings he saw Alfred's cheap writing paper and careful penmanship. He reached for it, read it twice, then handed it to his secretary with instructions...