Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...station was full of Hartford's finest, milling about the assignment desk, waiting their chance to go out and get the registration criminals. They all smiled knowingly when their successful compatriot came in and led me into the Captain's office...
...thank you." I had been collecting my things from the desk sergeant. Having signed the receipt, I headed for the door...
...place to go because the floor was full of Congressmen." Added Representative George Long, brother of the assassinated Huey: "Someone behind me yelled, 'Those are just in play.' I said, 'The hell they are. Those are bullets.' So I got behind the Speaker's desk." When the woman directed her fire toward him, Speaker Martin pressed back behind a column...
Senator William Knowland, who had tried for weeks to get a compromise acceptable to the Administration, left the majority leader's desk and moved three rows back. Said he: "I wish to make it very clear that what I say is not said as majority leader, but is said in my capacity as an individual Senator . . ." He would, he announced, vote for the George proposal, which the White House opposed. Knowland's abdication of leadership served clear notice, if any was needed, that all party discipline was off; it was, as usual, every Republican for himself...
...Master sighed, put away his box of little stars, and let the chart fall amidst the other rubbish on his desk. It was the new system of House assignment, he decided. He never got any of the clean ones...