Word: desk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Twenty Crises. Last week Reynaud's intelligence and courage and authority were in action at the office he occupies as chairman of the powerful Assembly Finance Committee. Sitting stiffly upright at his desk, with scarcely a crease in his double-breasted waistcoat, he wrote out in longhand a set of proposals for reforming the French constitution to enable ministers to stay in office long enough to conduct responsible government. Although he himself had voted against the Mendès-France government, and thus helped bring on its collapse, he told a press conference that this 20th ministerial crisis...
...setting for Faust's gloomy study is in place. Books are piled on the desk and a large armchair has been carefully placed so that it screens an open trapdoor from the view of the audience...
Churchill & the Desk. When World War II came, Salesman Tom Watson Jr. enlisted and spent the next 5½ years as a transport pilot in the Army Air Forces. Right after Pearl Harbor he married Olive Field Cawley, then started shuttling between Russia and the Middle East on staff missions. In his B-24 he once flew escort for Britain's Prime Minister Churchill on a long flight from Moscow to Teheran. When he got out in 1946, he was a lieutenant colonel with 2,000 hours of flight time, the Air Medal, and senior pilot's wings...
...executives hardly recognized him when he got back. Tom Watson Jr. had grown up in the Army. His first job was as assistant to Charles Kirk, IBM's vice president in charge of sales. "He had a large desk," says Tom Watson Jr., "and I simply had a chair pulled up at the edge of the desk, alongside him, and saw 90% of what he did." When Kirk was away, Tom Watson Jr. had to make the decisions. He made them so well that when Kirk died suddenly in the summer of 1947, Tom Jr. took over...
...fortunate as the boy next door who staggered into Memorial Hall ten minutes late with a pajama top on his back and hatred in his heart. He was certainly more rested, however, than the lad who arrived on time, took his blue book, and then dozed at his desk for the next fifty minutes...