Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alumnus of the Atomic Energy Commission plant at Los Alamos, Lehrer has been on a brief leave from his defense job as "theoretical physicist, research mathematician, spectroscopist, or what have you" in Cambridge, Mass. Next week he is due back at his desk, where, says Lehrer, "I sit and think...
...secret documents. Coleman was asked if he had other such papers at home. "At first, he denied it," said Reid. "The second time, he said 'maybe.' and the third time, he said 'yes.' " A search revealed 43 documents, many of them marked classified, on a desk in Coleman's room. Coleman, called to the stand, told McCarthy he had taken the papers home to study...
...church, part museum, part big business, sits red-haired Rector John Heuss, 45. High Churchman Heuss (rhymes with deuce) is well matched with traditionally high-church Trinity, where all 22 clerics on the staff are addressed as Father. His manner is dignified, yet easy; his administrative ability, his clean desk and smooth 15-minute-appointment schedule would do justice to the highest tycoon among his vestrymen. And he is also a sociologist in a parish that needs...
...court, Warren moved in with a friendly and casual air. When he takes a breather from work at the neat desk in his oak-paneled office, he often strolls through the building greeting surprised employees with a hand outstretched and a self-introduction: "I'm Earl Warren." Said one guard: "He shakes more hands in one day than many other Justices do in five years...
Instead of getting off on the second floor, where the Trib's circulation department is, he got off at the ad department on another floor. At the desk in front of the elevator sat a receptionist who had never exchanged a word with the Colonel before, though she well recognized his commanding presence. "Where are the dolls?" asked the Colonel sternly. Knowing nothing of the dolls, but thinking of the sea of empty desks around her, the flustered receptionist blurted out: "They've all just gone to lunch." Rank impertinence, the Colonel later thundered to his aides...