Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heap like a house of cards. Near by, a cathedral toppled over, its steeple bell bouncing into rubble. Army barracks, a sports stadium, police headquarters, a hospital, a prison, and the post office fell like split kindling. The palatial Hotel Baudouin swayed and plunged, then foundered, turning its desk register into a death toll...
...first cable from Rio de Janeiro to reach TIME'S foreign desk a fortnight ago reported the suicide story of President Getulio Vargas. It ended with a terse footnote: "Impossible reach office now blocked by police investigating killing of boy outside building. Plan file picemeal updating whenever possible sit down and write...
...editor-politician from northeast Brazil, Café Filho bucked the old Vargas dictatorship so vigorously that he had to flee to asylum in a Rio embassy. When he returned to Congress after World War II, as floor leader for the Social Progressive Party, he sat at his old desk on the opposition side. But his party bosses, after nominating him for Vice President in 1950, withdrew their own presidential nominee in return for Vargas' support of Café Filho. Thus, Café Filho was swept into office in an administration with which he had little sympathy...
...President ducked out. of the heat and glare of the TV lights and paced the floor slowly, hands behind .his back. He looked stricken momentarily when he found that his glasses were missing from his breast pocket, calmed down when he remembered they were in place on a walnut desk in the studio. A technician gave the two-minute warning, and Ike took his position in front of the desk. Two easels, out of camera range in front of the desk, supported stacks of 3-by-4-ft. cue cards, designed to allow him to get through the speech without...
...grey-haired woman walked into an office in Galveston, Texas' American national Insurance Co. building one day last week, sat down at a desk and began signing her name to a stack of documents. Mrs. Mary Moody Northen, 62, was formally taking over as head of the $400 million empire left by her father, W. L. Moody Jr., who died at 89 as one of the ten richest men in the U.S. (TIME...