Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cavalier treatment some of his proposals were getting in Congress. Asked to comment on the House's action in killing the Administration's health-reinsurance plan, the President stared ahead for a moment, his mouth turned sternly down. As he answered, his fist drummed the desk, his voice rose angrily. Clearly indicating that he regards his health plan as the last barrier against socialized medicine, Ike warned that the public was going to get better care one way or the other. Said he: "I am sure that the people that voted against this bill just...
...youngster's note on one blackboard-"Amy Hauser stinks"; a moment later he does a double-take at a second blackboard, which reads: "Amy Hauser stinks on ice"; finally he shrugs hopelessly when he discovers the secret truth of it all, on the underside of a desk top: "I love Amy Hauser...
Reaching for Tomorrow. Since those fateful first years, Allen has learned to live with the job. Behind his desk, he is sure of himself, knows what he wants to do and how. At home he is an amiable, storytelling host whose best jokes are on himself, who loves to sit around with old cronies, sipping Scotch and water and bursting out with gusts of staccato laughter. He lives in a handsome, ten-room house north of Seattle, with his wife Mary Ellen Field, their son James, and three daughters, Dorothy, Nancy and Ellen. Allen likes to dance, fish, play squash...
...bacon, two kinds of cake, watermelon. Then he flew off again, for a brief look-in at a tobaccomen's convention in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and a $100-a-plate campaign fund-raising dinner in Louisville. This week, after four days of duty at his Washington desk. Cooper will go back to Kentucky for another big weekend of campaigning and speeches...
...judge, in the Kentucky sense, is the local law enforcer, political leader, friend in need of the political faithful, comptroller of patronage and state-relief funds, and father confessor to anyone with a problem. Cooper found that as many as 30 people crowded into his office every morning. His desk was in the corner of the room and the potbellied stove was in an adjacent corner. Cooper recalls what it was like on a cold day: "Early in the morning everybody would cluster close up around the stove until...