Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point, Hill, who had held the floor for three days, strolled down the aisle, clapped a hand on Taft's shoulder and called him "my sweet, good friend from Ohio, whose shining virtue is the virtue of integrity." When Hill later began to move toward Taft's desk a second time, Taft called a point of order. Said he, with a wry smile: "Mr. President, the Senator must speak from his chair. He cannot approach me and pat me on the head...
...offer from 30 to 50 different styles and finishes apiece. Story & Clark, which last year brought out a "corner" piano that looks like a combination spinet and tiny grand ($1,195), is making a new model this year in honor of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Designed after a desk which belonged to the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Carleton will sell for $1,000. Story & Clark's most striking number: the "ranch-style spinet," cased in knotty pine, and decorated with a carved steer's head, leather straps on the music rack, and ranch brands carved...
...pistol), and sometimes merely looking like a weary-eyed, simple simian. He need do no more to earn his $250 a week, but Garroway has bigger plans afoot. "As soon as he can take direction properly," says Dave, "we plan to have J. Fred carry copy to the news desk...
...full-scale resumption of the truce talks (the Big Switch), which he designated as a "second order of business." The Reds acquiesced. To head his liaison group, Clark appointed Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, 53, Annapolis graduate (1924), who has made a solid reputation in the Navy both as desk man and blue-water sailor. Organizer of the Navy's first underwater demolition team, John Daniel commanded a destroyer squadron in the Pacific, won the Navy Cross. He came from the first session this week reporting that the Communists were "very objective"-meaning businesslike, and not disposed to stall...
Cheer up, Malenkov. It looks as though Hitler and Stalin were right about the decadence of democracy. With the baseball opener down the drain, the rest shouldn't take long. Armed services appropriations and foreign aid bills will lie forgotten on the desk, or perhaps in the bottom of a golf bag. Cheer up, Kremlin. It looks like easy sailing from...