Word: desk
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...pass the time away or to look good. Everything he sends to Congress he believes to be for the good of the country, and he is going to work for its enactment. Make no mistake about it, the President added, wagging his head and pounding his fist on the desk in emphasis, that is exactly what he is here for and that is what he intends...
President Eisenhower was willing to swallow broad compromises for the Bricker amendment, but-and here the President leaned forward with his hands flat on his desk and spoke with utter earnestness-when you come down to this, that we have to go right back to the general system that prevailed before our Constitution was adopted, then he certainly never shall agree...
Apples on the Desk. In World War II, Fanfani escaped Mussolini's draft by fleeing to Switzerland, where (together with Italian President Luigi Einaudi) he taught Italian students in internment camps. Ambitious, aggressive and a disciplinarian (he says he believes in authority, efficiency, and the Sermon on the Mount), Fanfani after the war, took on a succession of ministries under Premier Alcide de Gasperi. As Minister of Labor, he developed the "Fanfani house" program which so far has produced more than 7,700 government-built workers' homes; he put 200,000 of Italy's many unemployed...
Once, when someone proposed Fanfani for still another ministry, De Gasperi refused. "If I keep on appointing Fanfani to various ministries." he said. "I am sure that one of these days I will open the door to my study and find Fanfani sitting at my desk...
...turnover. The library did its best business last fall at the time of the November hour exams, when 3,200 reserved volumes were passed out in one day. The smallest single day's turnover so far this year was early in December when only 951 books crossed the reserve desk. In the month of November 22,000 books went into outside circulation, as compared with 20,000 the previous year. Despite his lack of concern for figures, McNiff displays suitable pride in the fact that Lamont has done more business this year than ever before, and hopes to do more...