Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outmoded Art. One look at the explosion indicated that civilian defense must be rapidly becoming an outmoded art. But the last few minutes of the film was devoted to a talk by Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, who sat at his desk and emitted such platitudes as "What you have just seen . . . [affects] the safety of our communities and the well-being of our homes and our families." He asked for preparation at home to guarantee "assurance that the American people are prepared to withstand any assault. "This," he added, with bitter, unconscious humor, "is no simple thing...
...papers carried the news which for a week had been kept a strict secret even from his own musicians: Arturo Toscanini, the greatest performing musician alive today, had retired. For almost a fortnight, his letter of resignation to RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff had rested, unsigned, on his desk. Abruptly, on his 87th birthday, Toscanini made his decision, ran upstairs and signed it. Excerpt: "And now the sad time has come when I must reluctantly lay aside my baton and say goodbye to my orchestra ... I shall carry with me rich memories of these years of music making...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, Democrat Paul Douglas of Illinois bewailed the economic state of the nation and lugubriously pictured the U.S. housewife hunched over her electric stove, the burden of taxes weighing heavily on her shoulders. Up from behind a paper-littered desk rose Colorado's Republican Senator Eugene Millikin to trade political insults. (Douglas chided the G.O.P. for a recent Government pamphlet on Ways to Cook Rabbit. Millikin recalled a Democratic treatise on the love life of a watermelon.) Then Gene Millikin stumped to the rear of the chamber, puffed on a cigarette, and licked...
...Butler was picked to find the answer. He took over the two chairs and one desk which constituted the Tory research department, and set to work "to wrest the initiative in the realm of political ideas from the Left." His first step was something hitherto unknown in Tory circles-he called on party members for ideas. Said Rab: "When I first knew the Tory Party, policy was brought down from Mount Sinai on tablets of stone. The faithful who waited for the tablets were often blinded by the light they...
...Butler once confided to a friend: "I believe Winston still thinks of me as a bright young man just down from Cambridge." As opposed to Churchill's inspired high spirits, Butler is, in the words of a friend, "completely unflappable -if a bomb exploded under his desk, he would press a button for his third secretary." Blood, toil, tears and sweat are not for him. Recently he advised a British audience to adopt his own credo: "Do not be elated, never be depressed." But Sir Winston has learned to admire Rab's solid virtues; when Butler presented...