Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, Britain's Desert Rats shoved aside the "Gyppos" (as they called the Egyptian soldiers) and themselves took over the defense of the Libyan frontier. Naguib was pinned behind a desk in the Adjutant General's office...
...which was supposed (but signally failed) to keep the royal rump from becoming imperial. Farouk's study was a pornographer's paradise, hung with garish paintings and crammed with statuettes of nudes in attitudes conventional as well as unconventional-at least by U S standards. In his desk was a box of "magic tricks," including two pocket radiation counters inscribed: "Measure Nuclear Energy Yourself...
...Washington, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg reported back for duty at his Pentagon desk, after a four-month convalescence from a sudden and serious operation...
President Juan Perón, a wide black mourning band on his left sleeve, sat for the first time last week behind Evita's old desk, ready to take up his duties as the new head of the Eva Perón Social Aid Foundation. As always, hundreds of applicants were waiting outside the Ministry of Welfare & Labor to beg favors. Though only a few were admitted, the President was at his smiling best...
...spite of Hawker-Siddeley's size, Tom Sopwith runs it by remote control. He spends most of his time hunting, fishing and boating because he thinks better out in the open than behind a desk. Though he goes to the office only once or twice a month, and leaves most administrative details to Managing Director Sir Frank Spriggs, 57, Sopwith makes the big policy decisions himself, chewing over the problems while tramping the moors of his 20,000-acre estate, in Yorkshire...