Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself to Budget Director Frederick Lawton and was assigned a big office in the Executive Office Building just two doors down the hall from Lawton's own quarters. There, Dodge took off his grey Homburg, grey suede gloves and dark blue overcoat and settled down behind a big desk on which he placed 1) a pile of celluloid calendars advertising his Detroit Bank, 2) a copy of the Republican platform (which calls for "reduction of expenditures by the elimination of waste and extravagance"). Then he got down to work looking over the voluminous drafts for Harry Truman...
...French officer in Hanoi saw a moon-faced little Indo-Chinese looking at a book the Frenchman had left on his desk. "May I borrow the book?" the little man asked politely. "As soon as I have finished reading it myself," the Frenchman replied. The book: War in the Rear of the Enemy...
Soon, Man of the Year proposals will be crowding your desk. Last year it was rightly Mossadegh . . . This year, one's selection can only fall on Egypt's new leader, General Naguib...
...very interested in your Oct. 6 review of Recollections of Three Reigns. Fifty years ago I was a page boy in the Naval and Military Club in London. I paged Sir Frederick Ponsonby, calling his name, as it was then, "Colonel Ponsonby," but no response. Back at the desk the caller said: "I know he is in; try again." I made a second round of the rooms, calling "Colonel Ponsonby." This time a sharp voice responded: "Boy! I am General Ponsonby." He had been listed general in that same morning's Gazette. An example of protocol if ever there...
...cover 1,731 pages of medium-fine print. It costs $10 in the regular two-volume edition, and it can also be had in a de luxe $15 printing. Author Cooper, a 59-year-old bachelor, took eleven years to write it, during and after business hours at the desk where he manages a family real-estate fortune (TIME, April...