Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explained that the proposed changes were typographical, with one brief deletion of an obvious error. Replied McCarthy: "I have found so many obvious errors that I should like to know which one the Senator is deleting." When Watkins tossed a copy of the corrected report on McCarthy's desk, McCarthy whined that he now had to go through 72 pages. "The Senator from Utah has told me that he knows what these errors are," he complained. "Why does he not mark them for me?" South Dakota's mild-mannered Republican Senator Francis Case, a censure committee member, scurried...
...Negro went to the other hotel without a protest, but he had no illusions about why he had been sent away. "The desk clerk was discriminating against me because of my color," he said afterwards. "I walked away feeling that I would never want to put foot on Canadian soil again...
...regional roundups were more effective than the general CBS coverage. CBS's news desk overscreened its commentators, leaving them time and again with little to say that they had not said half an hour earlier. On CBS it sometimes appeared that there were more commercials (for Roto-Broil and Prestone) than election returns...
...show's producers puts it, "she looks as if she's going to have it today." Since her comic line is that she passionately wants to marry Berle, her pregnancy presented a problem that has, so far, been avoided only by keeping her seated at a desk. Berle's writers suggested that she be written out of the show until she has her baby. Ruth objects because, "I've been told that if I'm off the show too long, I would lose my value for coming-back purposes." An actor can be barred...
Manners & Morals. In Cambridge, Mass., thieves stole $2,500 from the Moll Motors Co., before leaving spelled out "THANKS" in coins on a desk...