Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cane, and wore a hearing aid that sputtered so much he was affectionately called "the Buzzer." But in class, students forgot everything except the Buzzer's fiery way of teaching. Sometimes he stamped his feet, sometimes he brandished his cane, sometimes he even hopped up on a desk in the heat of describing a battle. Once, drenched by the rain, he whisked off his suit and conducted the class in his underwear...
Unrepentant Liberal. A desk man rather than a pulpit man, Hermann Morse has spent almost 40 years in the work of the National Missions Board, for the last four has been its general secretary. Modest Moderator Morse, taken a bit by surprise at being an unopposed candidate, insisted that his election was strictly a tribute to the Missions Board. Said he: "If you ever see a turtle sitting on top of a stump, you can know he didn't get there by himself." Nonetheless, it was also a personal tribute to a minister who has never had a permanent...
...only say that he is acting under your orders and put on a pained expression Pained expressions take all the fun out of things, especially when not terribly sincere. And, after all, why should your deputies have all the fun, rocking and diving, while you slave away at your desk over letters like this? It may be possible for me to invite some friends and we can have a party (refreshments rocking diving...
...Drugstore. His ambition growing, he lifted the courthouse keys from the sheriff's pocket, made a nocturnal visit to the vault containing the records of his burglary case. Though he failed to open it, he eased the sting of defeat by swiping $23 from the sheriff's desk...
...English-style house across from the Episcopal Cathedral, where he lives amid green lawns and shrubberies in the admiration of a highly intelligent wife, two secretaries, a young lady researcher and a pair of French poodles, he went into his study to digest the daily papers. Then, at his desk in bath robe and slippers, he polished off the morning's chore of writing. With the help of the young lady researcher, who has an office on the third floor, he has checked and rechecked his facts. If it is the day for the column to go to press...