Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walshes; when he subsequently caught up with the slow-marching alumni, he grinned and noted his unmilitary lapse: "Let's not mess this up." "Leadership," the President said in a speech after lunch that day in the high-ceilinged Washington Hall, does not consist of calling names and desk-pounding but of "something of the heart and head. Bad deportment is never to be confused with strength of character. If a man is sure of himself and the integrity of the processes he has used to reach his decision, he can be strong, but he can be mild...
Candidate Eisenhower refused to dictate a choice, but he did sit down at his desk and, after a few minutes of reflection, jotted down a list of seven names. As he handed the list to Brownell, Ike made it clear that it was not necessarily binding or exclusive. The list: 1) Richard Nixon, 2) Henry Cabot Lodge, 3) Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado, 4) Governor Arthur Langlie of Washington, 5) New Jersey's Alfred E. Driscoll, 6) Senator William Knowland, 7) Harold Stassen. With the list in hand, Brownell hurried over to Eisenhower headquarters on the eleventh floor...
...right, are vaguely available. Among them: ex-President Manuel Prado, fondly remembered for staging 1945's free elections, and Foreign Minister David Aguilar. But whoever runs, only one vote will really count. That is the vote of Manuel Odria himself, who says, glancing at the blueprints on his desk: "All this must continue. I will...
...luxury motel near the Tarrytown exit of the New York State Thruway, some 25 miles north of the New York City line. To be called the Tarrytown Sheraton Inn, the new motel will have 156 rooms, a restaurant, bar and a drive-in registration desk...
...Rourke hopes public opinion will force substandard hospitals to upgrade themselves or shut down. "I wish it were possible," he added, "to hang a scarlet letter above the admission desk of every provisionally approved hospital in the U.S. and Canada. Nonaccreditation, by my standards, [is] criminal, while provisional accreditation marks a grave misdemeanor on the part of those responsible...