Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nerve center of the Secretariat is the immaculate 38th floor, paneled with Norwegian spruce and aflame with modern paintings: Picasso, Matisse, Braque. There, amid his paintings, toying with a small cigar at his clean Swedish-made desk, sits the man in charge of it all: Dag Hammarskjold...
...afternoon last weekend, Lemaigre flew back to Morocco from a Paris meeting with Premier Edgar Faure. He sat down at a desk and scribbled a note to Faure: "The situation is getting worse...
...Tizzy. In New York City last week, another joined that distinguished parade of art lovers. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov, just in on the Queen Elisabeth, sent the huge Metropolitan Museum into a tizzy by showing up at the information desk and requesting a guided tour. Trailed by a small Soviet retinue and reporters, including the New York Times's Russian-speaking Reporter Harrison E. Salisbury, longtime (1949-54) Moscow correspondent. Molotov spun through 40 rooms of art in an hour, suggesting by changes in his usually granite features that he was taken by Rubens and Tintoretto, curious...
...works 12 to 18 hours a day, usually lunches on a sandwich at his desk, a 12-ft.-long kidney-shaped masterpiece that he designed himself. While reading or talking, Reuther scribbles incessantly in notebooks, jotting down his jet-stream of ideas (even in bed, at night, when he thinks of something, he gets up to make a note of it). The U.A.W.'s top officials have all picked up the habit; when called, they pick up their notebooks and gather around Reuther's kidney-shaped command post. If they argue too long, he snaps: "I think...
...cruise at 410-440 m.p.h. for flights up to 2,000 miles, 25% faster and 1,000 miles farther than current Viscounts. It will carry 64 passengers (compared to Viscount's 48) in a cabin with big picture windows, a lounge, and wider seats, each with a combination desk-tray...