Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special committees, boards and councils* that screen policy ideas. At the top are the NSC and the Cabinet. Matters of defense strategy move up through the NSC, broad questions of national policy in all fields by way of the Cabinet. When a problem reaches the President's desk, the facts presented to him are as reliable as the U.S. Administration as a whole can make them, and the choices before him are clearly spelled out. If possible, the NSC and the Cabinet try to send up an agreed Administration position that he can either accept, reject or revise...
...spouting Urdu when asked to show that he could speak Gaelic). He slept one night in an absent German general's bed, watched from the bedroom window the Nazis' parade into Paris, and cycled across France to freedom. Back in Britain, he left his commander's desk and flew repeated fighter missions as "Wing Commander Smith...
City Manager John J. Curry '19 is sure. He thundered his answer across his massive desk in City Hall...
...health of the elevator operator, Charles Adams. Ike went right to bed, and was placed under an oxygen tent. The green-and-cream-colored suite is reserved for very important patients and furnished in the style of a hotel room, with upholstered chairs, a carpet on the floor, a desk and several lamps...
...heavy course schedule on top of several other activities keeps me chained to my desk on Saturday afternoons. Yet when a muffled roar from the Stadium filters back to my room, I'd like to be able to flick on my radio to hear the score...