Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Ike put in a full morning at his desk, conferred with the seemingly endless parade of officials and friends who beat a track to his door (among the week's visitors: Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, Senator Arthur Watkins, General Omar Bradley). Later, on the golf course at Cherry Hills Club, he swapped pleasantries with Dizzy Dean, and gave Bob Hope an impromptu lesson on how to drive a golf ball. After the comedian had shanked a ball off the fairway, Ike grabbed his driver and cleanly smacked a drive 225 yards down...
...desk is bare except for a well-thumbed dictionary, a picture of the novelist's wife and an old-fashioned gold watch with Roman numerals and a heavy lid. For five years the watch has lain open on the desk while its owner listened to its ticking and wrote steadily, using the same aging desk pen and yellow lined pads. Says Herman Wouk (pronounced woke...
President Eisenhower had carefully plotted his vacation plans. For the past two summers he had been hampered, on his annual arrival in Denver, with a load of unfinished business. For the first few weeks he had found himself tied to his desk at Lowry Air Force Base almost half of each day, signing bills and attending to leftover work from Washington. This summer, determined to relax for a couple of weeks at least, he had boned away at his chores before leaving on vacation. Last week his briefcase was empty, and except for some routine duties, Ike could look forward...
...call. "Sooooooey, soooooey, hoh, peeg, peeg, peeg," he crooned. Then he glanced at his watch. "I better get back to work," he said. The reporters trailed after him into the small original fieldstone wing of the 100-year-old house. The President sat down at a small pine desk and glumly contemplated a stack of bills to be signed into law. "I built this as an office,"' he explained as he began to sign the bills that Secretary Ann Whitman handed him. "But Mrs. Eisenhower took it over, and the only office I have left is six foot square...
Mighty Mouse. In Dixon, Ill., Cook William Young was fined $10 on an intoxication charge after he mistook a neon sign over the police station for the name of a bar, walked in, slapped his hand on the counter, piped to the desk sergeant: "Gimme a shot...