Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson's speech had just ended and the reporters traveling with the train began scrambling aboard. The press car, a coach with all scats removed and typing desks substituted, sounded like a locker-room between the halves of a close football game as the reporters rushed in to copy down their notes on Stevenson's reception in Pittsfield. On the window alongside each reporter's desk was placed the banner of the newspaper he represented. The Philadelphia Bulletin leaned across the aisle and said to the San Francisco Chronicle, "One of his best, on?" The Chronicle man nodded happily...
...Dunkley got an example of how many people read his copy, which ran in many U.S. papers with no byline. Day after the World Series ended, Baseball Commissioner Landis called in Dunkley and showed him a desk piled high with wires and letters. Because Dunkley had correctly predicted that the Series would go seven games, readers were complaining that the Series must have been fixed. Reporter Dunkley. who quit school at 14 to cub on the Kalamazoo Gazette, joined the Chicago bureau of the A.P. in 1911, soon moved into a hotel room only one block away so he could...
...plays absolutely up to the mark every minute he may be out of a job, he may play better, but there is more tension." Should a Danish player get "too relaxed," Orchestra President Bentzon "speaks like an older brother." By tradition, an aging player moves back to a rear desk, and eventually out (with a state pension) of his own accord...
...girl at the Sheraton Plaza desk glanced through a list of rooms. "Yes," she said, "Independents for Kennedy is in Parlor B. That's Mr. Taylor's suite." I went back, and the three were just getting up to leave. "Thank you very much, Mr. Taylor," said one of them to the thick...
...morning in 1878 President Eliot found a letter on his desk from one Arthur Gilman, a Cambridge historian. "Dear Sir," Mr. Gilman wrote, "I am engaged in perfecting a plan which shall afford women opportunites for carrying their studies forward further than it is possible for them, to do in this country . . ." Eliot agreed that Gilman had a worthy idea, and the Annex was soon to be in operation...