Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WAVE at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center wanted to know how TIME reports the news of Russia, one of the world's biggest areas, without a Moscow correspondent. Answer: the best way we can, with our Russian Desk reading the lines and between the lines of Russian periodicals, with diplomatic contacts in our Washington bureau and abroad, and with trickles of information which seep through the Iron Curtain...
When war broke in 1941, Baker found himself behind a desk in Washington. He started off as Vice Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, but went into uniform in 1942 to set up the Requirements Organization for Quartermasters Corps. After this job, which he calls "the most interesting of my career," he went into the Special Planning Division of the War Department General Staff...
...fleet of white trucks loaded with 440 cops sped away from Tokyo's metropolitan police station. The arrival of the raiders at Red headquarters near Meiji Park sent men & women party members tumbling out of the doors to be collared outside. Inside, sitting calmly at a clean-topped desk, was Eiichi Iwata, a high party official. "I knew you were coming," he told the raiders. "I've developed a terrific sixth sense from long years of experience. The place is swept clean, but I had no time to prepare tea." Other raids-at a greengrocer's home...
...course, Harvard's logic of teaching young men to be executives before their time can lead to trouble. "We often find a good bright boy, say from Middlebury, more satisfactory," a company personnel man once reported. "These Harvard men walk in here on their first jobs and expect a desk twice as long as mine and with half a dozen push buttons...
Moreover, says Dr. Fink, copies of the new 18-minute recording worked wonders for heart patients, high-blood-pressure victims and others. A housewife told him she played it while she washed her dishes; a writer, who used to be tense at his desk, used it as a sort of background music while he worked. Says Dr. Fink, who is now planning to put his disk on the market (around $5): "One thing that helped me was my wife's advice-'Talk as though you were speaking to a little child cradled in your arms...