Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handsome young Dr. Lawrence W. Leslie sat down at the desk in his Chicago living room and began to write: "To the coroner-Dear Sir." It was late at night. The 33-year-old doctor had been through a harrowing evening, but he wrote neatly and methodically. As far as his friends knew, he was that kind of man. He had just finished serving two years in the Air Force-to which he had been called after finishing his internship-and had been in Chicago for less than three months, but his North Side apartment neighbors had noted his easy...
...came from the poppy fields which flourish under the snow-capped Andean volcanoes close to Quito. Impressed by White's raids, Minister of Government Camillo Ponce Enriquez last week promised to ask the next Congress for laws prohibiting poppy-growing. George White headed back toward his desk in Boston where, between traveling assignments, he is New England supervisor for the U.S. Narcotics Bureau...
...Inman was found to be operating in the kitchen of a ranch. Its teacher: Mrs. Joseph Pojar. Its pupils: five little Pojars. Near Broadwater, one 82-year-old teacher has to live in the school, cook her meals on a hot plate, sleep on a cot pitched beside her desk. Near Kimball, Teacher Helen Layer is in the same fix: she has one room, one stove, one pupil...
Oregon's Independent Wayne Morse last week rose on the floor of the Senate to make still another speech. He did not feel at home at his desk in the front row on the Republican side; he would like to move to "the end seat of the back row on the Democratic side." The Rules Committee will have to decide whether ex-Republican Morse...
Says Ros: "I've played 19 career women and I'm tired of it. After all, you can only get a pompadour so high. The plot was always the same, and I used to even get the same desk in each picture...