Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From 8:15 to 4:30 each working day Wallace Stevens sits at a big, uncluttered desk in a comfortable office with a thick russet carpet. As vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., he spends his business hours dealing with fidelity and surety claims. Nobody would take 70-year-old Insuranceman Stevens for a poet, let alone the hard-to-read kind. But, after hours, Stevens is just that...
...general was silent on the way to his headquarters. When he got there he walked unwillingly toward his desk. The desk had a pile of papers on it. Gay looked at them with distaste, plunked down his helmet. "I've been having myself a hell of a time," he said as if to himself. He looked at the papers and added: "But I guess that's the sort of thing generals ought not to be doing...
...Institutes' research work into the causes and cure of disease (from the common cold to rare tropical fevers) was feverishly expanded for war medicine. Since the war, new research groups have been added to attack mental and heart diseases and cancer. Dr. Dyer was too busy at his desk to do any lab work. Instead, he made a name for himself (and won a 1948 Lasker Award) fof his imagination and judgment in doling out millions of Government dollars for thousands of medical research projects...
...retired, it was Savard who stepped in and settled the trouble. The strike, coupled with reduced promotional activities, had clipped Gossard's profit 82% last year. When Savard moved into his new job last week, a bunch of roses from the garment workers' union was on his desk. Said Savard: "Our competitors ran while we stood still, but now we're going...
...William D. Hassett a talking mynah for his 69th birthday present last year, and the black, orange-ruffed bird caught on fast. He learned to cock his head and cry: "What about the appropriation?" Hassett, an old newsman himself, soon taught the bird to squawk: "Flash! Get me the desk!" "Flash" became his name...