Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questioning veered again, Ike got a chance to reply to the suggestion that the Big Four conference might result in a Yalta-like sellout. Nobody mentioned the name of California's Senator Knowland, but all knew that the President's intense words, punctuated with a fist-to-desk bang, were addressed to him. "There is no appeasement in my heart," said Ike. "I just can't believe that [Americans] . . . suspect their Government in general, is apt to fall into that trap...
...death before getting around to the big battle scene where all the adult whites are satisfactorily slaughtered. The film ends with a new boatload of settlers landing on the beach, complete with carpetbags and valises, and looking about them as if wondering which is the way to the desk clerk...
...forty years of research and teaching, Wolfson works as nearly around the clock as he can in Widener B-45--a study crammed to utter confusion with books, pamphlets, and papers that fill up the ceiling-high shelves on three sides of the room, overflow on the mammoth desk in the middle, and encumber every available chair with piles of envelopes. At 68, Wolfson can still scramble happily through the debris to look for a book or climb perilously on laden chairs in search of an obscure reprint from the Harvard Theological Review. After a lifetime of research...
...rose rapidly in the United Press. Right after World War II and a stint on Stars and Stripes, he went to Ohio State University for a year, then in 1947 covered the Ohio legislature in Columbus for U.P. Symonds moved to New York, was working on the U.P/s foreign desk when the Korean war broke out. Unmarried, he volunteered to go to the Far East, became a war correspondent, manager for the Philippines
tall, has the same lean, lanky build, the same courtly manners and, at close range, the same considerable charm. Like Avery, he is a lawyer (Indiana '30) and a "clean-desk man." He started in Ward's legal department in 1933, quickly rose to be director of labor relations. Avery's respect for Barr rose at the way he masterminded Ward's fight against the War Labor Board, which included the famed carrying-out of Avery by the Army. Under Barr, the union was kept out of Ward. Recently, when Avery needed the A.F.L. Teamsters...