Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi last month, the 500 members of India's Parliament prepared to go home. In the great olive green chamber, amid laughter, chatter and happy wishes for a pleasant vacation, hardly anyone noticed a strange, solitary figure in a yellow silk tunic and turban, slumped over his desk, weeping bitterly...
Back from the Veranda. The secretary led Kesa to Parliament, and told him where to put his thumb mark on official papers in lieu of his signature, since Kesa could not write. Otherwise, he left Kesa alone at his desk, to make of the proceedings what he could. Kesa did not understand a word of what was spoken, but as the session wore on, he began to understand something of parliamentary principle. He saw that even Prime Minister Nehru was the servant of Parliament, and could be shouted down and booed. He began to realize that Representative Kesa...
Major General Robert W. Grow, court-martialed and convicted last month for including classified material in his personal diary and allowing it to fall into Russian hands, was given a new tour of duty: a desk job in the office of the Army's Chief of Military History...
...leader just before an opera performance was about to begin, Beecham whispered. "We are playing Figaro tonight, are we not?" "Oh,no, Sir Thomas." said the leader in alarm, "it is Seraglio!" "My dear fellow, you amaze me!" said Beecham. With that, he closed the Figaro score on his desk and proceeded to conduct the whole of Seraglio from memory...
...able to get about on crutches, and took a wartime desk job in Washington, where he helped map postwar plans for the Petroleum Industry War Council. When the Government-built Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines were declared surplus property at war's end, Ryan formed U.S. Pipe Line to bid on them. He lost out to a higher bid from Texas Eastern Transmission, which now uses them for natural gas. But Ryan was convinced that there was still a big need for a transcontinental line, and decided to build...