Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turn away from the flash, fall flat, close your eyes, cover head and arms against flash burns. Outside, get as close as you can to a building or tree for protection against falling debris. Inside, dive under a bed or desk or behind a sofa...
Among the 137 bills that cluttered the President's desk at the height of the congressional adjournment crush last week was H.R. 9087 for the relief of one H. Dale Madison. It was one of the innumerable private relief bills which Congressmen grind out for their constituents like links from a sausage machine...
...besides, Pious Methodist Rickey refused to play on Sundays. He tried managing the St. Louis Browns, but he lacked the temperament to field-boss some of his hardbitten pros. He found himself, and became Innovator Rickey, when he put his college (Ohio Wesleyan) brains to work behind a desk...
...former system, started last April, provided a signing out desk at the foot of the library stairs where books taken from the library were checked out by a members of either the library staff or student council. This checking system was used until the end of last term...
However, with the new location of the main desk at the bottom of the staircase, an extra checking-out desk would be unnecessary, Miss Poritt explained...