Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which ten passengers (three of them American) lost their lives. Peking
has rejected three U.S. protests, but took the British protest in good
grace and even promised that "measures have been taken to prevent
recurrence of such incidents."
...pretty but sad-eyed teen-age girl hobbled on crutches into the office of the President of Brazil one day last week. President Joāo Café Filho greeted her with a smile, pointed to a chair beside his ornate jacaranda-wood desk. Lucilla Carvalho sat down and told her story. Her leg had been amputated in an effort to halt cancer, and doctors had told her she would die unless she went to the U.S. for treatment. Could the President help...
...against the law," said the President. "But it's always been done," protested the lawyer. "I am here to apply the law and you ask me to break it!" snapped Café Filho. His smile vanished, and his fist came down hard on the desk. " While I am President nothing will be done that is against the law and justice. Nothing-do you understand?" His voice softened. "Perhaps you cannot understand," he said. "It is not your fault. It is the fault of a system we are trying to change...
Sullivan, twisting about to catch the reaction of the presiding Mayor, got a favorable nod. He loudly requested the definite number of policemen twice more. Ready stood by his conviction that "enough" was a number. At this point Sullivan stood up and leaned across his desk toward Chief Ready...
...first of the rooms was decorated only by a small desk and an oversized color portrait of the President when he was about 35 years old. A solid looking-man with his sleeves rolled up was in the corner smoking a cigar...