Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Desk-Bound Intellectuals. The Democrats, on the defensive for what was indeed a wretched record, even suffered a defection from their own ranks. Nevada's Pat McCarran, a blustery Democrat whose chief concern with foreign policy has been a single-minded drive to bring Spain into ECA, declared that the dust had settled long enough in Asia. Roared McCarran: "I am quite familiar with the doctrine of those desk-bound intellectuals who got all mixed up, those gentlemen who would probably describe Al Capone as the product of an unhappy childhood, those gentlemen who saw a boil on China...
...home, anyone seeing the warning flash should drop to the floor, with his back to the window, or crawl behind or under a table or desk...
...doesn't yell, holler, scream, shout; get angry, mad, furious; fly off the handle; pound the desk; fuss; fly in a rage; bite your head...
...Good afternoon," barked Harry S. Truman as he marched briskly into the stuffy Treaty Room of the old State Department at 4:04 p.m. and stood warily behind the big walnut desk. The 132 reporters readied their pencils, and the match began...
...bullets were raining in from several pillboxes, so I dived into the nearest foxhole. Who in hell was in there but Eddie Craig. He was lying there with a phone and a notebook, talking to a runner. He was so quiet and collected he could have been at a desk in the Pentagon. 'We got to get those damn pillboxes!' I yelled at him. 'Now sit down there a minute,' Craig says, 'we'll get to 'em.' He just looked at me and smiled. In a few minutes we had the pillboxes...