Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President seemed at his folksy best as he talked to his fellow Americans, via television and radio, from his White House desk. He tripped clumsily here & there as he read his message, but mostly he exuded persuasive sincerity, pugnacious impatience with critics, and flat sentences full of importance for the nation...
Lattimore had told the Tydings committee that he didn't have a desk in the State Department; he had also told an executive session of the McCarran inquiry that he never took care of the mail of Lauchlin Currie, then an assistant to President Franklin Roosevelt. Under crossexamination, he confessed to being absentminded. He did, after all, remember having a room in Currie's offices in the old State Department building; he used it frequently. Furthermore, it was true that during Currie's absence, he read Currie's mail...
...teacher at a progressive school in the United States observed to her dismay one morning a small puddle outside the classroom door. Most unhygienic. As she walked to her desk she thought: 'We mustn't set up any guilt complexes.' Inspiration came. 'Children,' she said, 'I've noticed that mess outside the door. We must, of course, keep our school clean. So we will all put our hands over our eyes and whoever was responsible will go out quietly and mop it up. Then he or she can return to the room...
Within two hours, TIME'S editors in New York had decided to put the new Queen on TIME'S cover, using Boris Chaliapin's color portrait of Elizabeth, which had been drawn months before. TIME'S Foreign News Desk sent cables to London and other overseas bureaus, outlining story plans. The Domestic and Canadian News Bureau wired scores of correspondents, asking for spot reactions of people and newspapers...
...small office in Sears' block-long home in Chicago, which, in 1905, when it was opened, was the "world's largest office building." Wood still uses the same walnut desk that Rosenwald used, sits in the same leather chair, keeps extra papers in another traditional rolltop desk in the corner. But there is nothing old-fashioned about Wood's business philosophy; he runs Sears "in terms of the democratic spirit." Says Wood: "We put our faith in men, not systems. I like to let a man learn by making a few mistakes, as long as they...