Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lengthy hospital checkup, announced that because of ill health (a kidney ailment) he would not run again. One morning last week, Hunt entered the Senate Office Building, his coat partially cloaking a .22-cal. Winchester rifle. In his office, Hunt sat down in the swivel chair behind his desk and fired a shot through his brain. Four hours later, after emergency surgery failed, Lester Hunt was dead...
...have a market for our magazine in 180 different countries," Ryus explained. "We sell TIME for kroner, drachmai, rials-about 120 currencies all told. Two of the newest mediums of exchange are the rupiah of Indonesia and the hwan of Korea." Few of these odd currencies cross Ryus' desk directly, since normally TIME International subscription orders, paid for in local currencies, are cleared through branches of world banks, such as New York's National City, Holland's Amster-damsche Bank, Italy's Banca Commerciale. There the money is converted and credited to TIME...
...duties. I saw the places where the secret recording devices had been installed ... I am [also] completely convinced and satisfied that there is no secret tapping of the telephones . . ." (Strauss found the device in a decorative fireplace after brushing his knee against its cut-in switch under his desk.) Hickenlooper could not resist adding a comment born of ten years' experience in Washington: "I think it is ominous . . . when those who decry methods of insinuation and the blasting of characters and reputations on the part of others, themselves use such innuendo and unfounded rumor as the truth in their...
...bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk. Then when the Russians arrived, Georg confided to a friend, "I will walk the tightrope over Communism as surely as I did over Naziism...
...finds the girl sneaking out of the house in the small hours. Accused of a secret romance or worse, Elizabeth draws a blank and claims to know nothing of her nocturnal jaunts. What worries Elizabeth far more are the scrawled little notes she keeps finding on her office desk, uncapitalized in the manner of e.e. cummings, e.g., "i know all about you dirty dirty lizzie and you can't get away from me and i won't ever leave you or tell you who i am ha ha ha." Three Plus One Splits. "Honest...