Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor sat behind a desk at the apex of the L-shaped room; the ministers and their wives sat at ease before him. At the doctor's right was a blackboard, and on his desk stood a microphone wired to a tape recorder which ran steadily throughout the four-hour session. "It has been said that the line between love and hate is razor-thin," said the doctor. "It's thinner than that. It's not there at all. Hate is simply a counter-attitude to love." Nobody demurred at that, and the ministers and their wives...
...basic question is not the trite old "Who Killed Cock Robin?" but the more modern "Am I the Sparrow?" The hero (Ralph Richardson) is a white-collar Briton who comes chirruping home from his desk at the bank one Monday to find that it is not Monday at all-it is Tuesday. Somehow, 24 hours of his life have got lost. To make matters worse, a man was murdered on Richardson's psychological day off and a powder train of explosive evidence leads straight to his door...
...Supreme Court's magnificently plain chamber. Through openings in the draperies and past the gleaming marble Ionic columns stepped nine men robed in black. Eight seated themselves in the black leather chairs at the long mahogany bench; the ninth went with the clerk of the court to a desk beside the bench. After a brief opening ceremony, Clerk Harold B. Willey turned to the man at his side and administered an oath: "I, Earl Warren, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich...
...roast or light a formal dinner. ¶ A warm and woolly Explorer's Study by William Pahlmann, which combines the comforts of a modern Manhattan flat with the old wood stove of a backwoods cabin. Among the features: a wall paneled in sturdy oak, a sleek, yellow lacquer desk...
...recommendation is now on the desk of Assistant Defense Secretary John A. Hannah. Hannah, Defense Department manpower specialist, expects to reach a decision on the proposal within the next few weeks...