Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listens, sometimes fiddling absently with a cap on a front tooth with thumb and forefinger. Sometimes he picks up his heavy-rimmed spectacles and twirls them or chews the stems. Or he will play with the top of his right ear, then drop his hands to the desk to rub his knuckles and massage each finger (see spread...
Then Ike is out of his chair, ready with an answer. He paces the deep-piled green carpet, stopping occasionally to cock his head at the ceiling to get a grasp on his thoughts. As he talks, he comes back to his desk, stands at an easy parade rest, plunging one hand into a pocket, or crossing and uncrossing his arms. His gestures have no oratorical flair, and betray no nervousness. Ike does not squirm or fidget. He moves smoothly, as an athlete moves...
...dictating he likes to sit on the edge of the desk and swing a putter or a nine iron. Or sometimes he slips a specially designed 5-lb. weight over the toe of his left shoe, and swings the leg back & forth to exercise the knee which he injured during his West Point football career...
...forms of bank work require accuracy and carefulness; but intelligence imagination, and judgment are equally important. And the banks must be able to apply these qualities to the making of decisions. What with most of the problems and questions which come to the banker's desk demanding definite answers, indecisiveness has no place in the banker's make...
...changing Presidents. The President-elect, René Coty, will not start his term until Jan. 17. But he has already set up an office in the Elysée Palace (although still living in his apartment on the Quai aux Fleurs), and each day sits himself at a desk to wade through a mountain of documents to acquaint himself with the job he will hold for seven years. But since outgoing President Vincent Auriol is still in office, Coty stays out of sight at all diplomatic ceremonies so no one will be confused by double-headed protocol. Last week France...