Word: penning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depth of the crisis became clearer, Parisians began to gather gravely at the newsstands in the winter sunshine. But there was no trouble. Deputy Jean-Marie Le Pen, onetime paratrooper and Poujadist tough boy, called upon Paris students to strike in support of the insurgents, but he was ignored by the students and picked up by the police...
...Calif., snow-topped Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, soon to be 75, leafed through some historic papers dating from the days when he commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. But he made it clear that he was just browsing and not afflicted by any passion to pen his memoirs, as so many of his comrades-in-arms have done. Such books, said he, brim with "many critical remarks and self-praise at the expense of others. Any memoirs I wrote could not add historically to what has been written...
...directions. As the masers (and the lab) swung with the turning earth to align the waves first with the direction of the earth's motion around the sun and then against it, any ether wind should have shown as an easily detected difference of frequency. But the recording pen never wavered...
...music they were standing on. The stunt was conceived and conducted by Leonard Bernstein, music's most gifted showman. The proceedings of that TV program and of several others are collected in a bestselling book in which Conductor Bernstein proves himself as handy a man with a pen as he is with a baton...