Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government, issued invitations, but accepted none from the other three. The first night, he had the Russians to dinner, greeting them with Mamie on the stone terrace overlooking the lake. He chatted with Zhukov, after dinner surprised the Russian by producing two wedding presents for his daughter-a desk pen inscribed "From the President of the United States, July 1955," and a portable U.S. radio -which he had hastily ordered after he learned of the marriage that morning from Khrushchev...
...Studied and signed 65 congressional bills, thereby clearing his desk for Geneva...
...late Senator Pat McCarran managed to change much of the content, as well as the title. As passed, the act was an administrative monstrosity which Congress assigned to the State Department's Security Chief, Scott McLeod. There was no staff, no office space, not even a desk for the program, but McLeod came under a barrage of criticism because of delays...
Cowan's latest contribution to American culture, The $64,000 Question, was conceived one day last January in the library of his Manhattan apartment, when he sat down at his desk determined not to get up until he had thought of a "great" idea. His mind turned toward quiz shows and Mount Everest, and he thought that the Everest of quiz shows would be one with increasingly tough peaks to scale. Then he wondered what he could give as a commensurate reward to anyone who scaled the highest peak. He remembered an old giveaway show, Take It or Leave...
...Public Act No. 364 came across his desk for signing, Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff was reminded of the marriage vows and of the phrase, "in sickness and in health." The bill, as passed by the state legislature, would have permitted divorce from a spouse confined to a mental institution for a period of five years, even though there might be temporary interruptions in the confinement. Last week Democrat Ribicoff vetoed the bill...