Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennessee's aged (81) Kenneth McKellar, who sometimes appears to be dozing at his front-row desk, snapped up like an aroused tomcat. Did the Senate mean to disregard the experience of his committee, which had approved all of these fine projects? By a vote of 47 to 28, the Senators said certainly not. Big Paul Douglas had lost again...
...Extra. All over, newspaper circulations soared. In Dallas, the Times-Herald (circ. 140,534) doubled its street sales in one afternoon. Portland's Oregon Journal (circ. 190,844) put out a daily extra, increased its sales by 35,000 copies for the week. (The Journal's copy desk also invented a more convenient headline word to describe the North Korean Communists: KO-REDS.) Though newspapers quickly took on their old wartime look with Page One photos of General MacArthur, B-29s and tanks, and the first casualty lists, most of the U.S. press followed Harry Truman...
...shocked by Selby's inside story of the way Philadelphia's House of Correction treated such prisoners (one had died from steam in a "punishment cell"). A few hours after the Bulletin printed Selby's report, the prison's superintendent came to Selby's desk with plans to improve the prison...
...most characteristic thing about a police state is that people 'disappear,' " wrote Reporter Schmidt. "It is difficult for the casual visitor [to understand that] when he enters the office of a business associate the desk in the corner is empty because the secretary who occupied it was arrested last week, or that the girl at the opposite desk is the police spy who denounced her, and who will shortly make a report to the police on the visitor's conversation with the manager...
Precisely at 5:30 a.m., slight, blond Ed Easton, 44, W-T & S rewrite man, finished pounding out a picture caption, shut his desk in the third-floor city room and turned in his copy. To Executive Editor