Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business of governing France has vast and subtle domestic and global complications which never intruded into Pinay's leather business or crossed the mayor's desk at St. Chamond. But he tucked those toward the rear of his mind, to concentrate on the one problem which his Frenchness told him was closest to the center of France's illness. André Siegfried once remarked of the petit bourgeois that "his heart is on the left, but his pocketbook is on the right." Pinay built his policy as Premier around one object-the Frenchman's pocketbook...
...apartment maintained there for the chief of the government; he preferred to stay in his unpretentious five-room apartment, to save himself the rigors of the moving-out day which comes to all who move into the Matignon. As was his habit when a Deputy, he locked up his desk almost every weekend and took off to St. Chamond, to look in on his tannery and, as plain His Honor the Mayor, chat with his townspeople...
...rounds of Tammany wigwams, political meetings, smoke-filled rooms. When he goes to press conferences he never tries to pressure a man or grind an ideological angle. He asks questions until he is sure he has the facts, ending each question with a sharp, peremptory "What, What?" At his desk, close by the Times city desk, Hagerty writes quickly and cleanly, seldom needs to edit his copy...
Among the heap of letters gracing our desk a few days ago was a plea for journalistic unity. The editors of the Daily Princetonian, anxious over football's current health, are drumming up enthusiasm for the return of spring practice and a requirement that each Ivy League members play five other members every year. Their missive, like those sent to the other six Ivy League newspapers, exhorted us to join with them in this drive. We can hardly go along, though...
...Nobel Prize in Physics and this was part of his reward. "First came the Swedish reporters," Purcell complained, "for they had advance notice. Things are beginning to quiet down now, and my wife and I have finally answered most of the mail," he added, looking up from his cluttered desk...