Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondent tossed in the McCarthy v. Marshall issue. Ike shot out of his chair, rushed around the corner of his desk and paced angrily up & down his office. "Now look!" he exploded. "General Marshall is one of the patriots of this country, and anyone who has lived with him, has worked with him as I have, knows that he is a man of real selflessness. I am not talking about any mistakes in judgment. That was none of my business, and I don't know anything about them...
...some doorbells ... get down to the grass roots.' 'Good boy, Finch.' " But on Finch's Saturday off when the boss drops by to pick up his golf clubs, Finch gets there a half hour before, rolls up his sleeves, tousles his hair and litters his desk with empty paper coffee cups and old cigarette butts saved for the purpose...
...profitable sales. But none of the artists was optimistic about the future of German art itself. Said one old impressionist: "Right after the war we breathed a great sigh of relief . . . We all said to ourselves that there would surely be something revolutionary hidden away in somebody's desk drawer . . . Then we realized there was nothing...
...station'] and ask them for the correct time?" A moment later she announced that it was 11:21. McCormick carefully set the gold-banded watch on his right wrist and the silver-banded one on his left. Then, watches synchronized, he sat down beside his big marble-topped desk to face the Trib's big problem. The problem: Whom shall it support in the 1952 presidential campaign...
...Elecom 100. The compact machine will answer such practical corporate problems as the overall wage bill, taxes, etc. Capable of "remembering" 102,400 combinations of nine decimal digits each, the brain can also be used for complicated aerodynamic problems. Elecom is run from a panel on an office desk, and the answers are recorded on an electric typewriter. Price...