Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were two typewriter salesmen ahead of him, but the president's secretary let Professor Baker go in first ("This won't take long," he had told her). Face to face with Peru's president, Baker drew a pistol, fired five times, left Nicholas dying at his desk. Before the salesmen and secretary grasped what had happened, Baker strode out; he walked downstairs to the office of his department head, Professor Paul A. Maxwell, and killed him too. Then he walked calmly across the hall, gathered up his hat and coat, smiled at a faculty member...
...Doodler. One species of physician is often unaware of the effect that his anxiety may have upon the patient: "If you are anxiously beating out an SOS with your fingers on the desk, or doodling with agitation while verbally reassuring a hypertensive patient . . . the patient will understand what you are doing and reject what you are saying...
Three for One. The Times city room is one of the world's biggest: 40 yards wide and a full city block long. The no city-staff reporters are usually summoned to the city desk by a public-address system. From his desk at the south end of the city room, Turner Catledge occasionally uses a pair of binoculars to see which reporters are in at the north end. In this sea of faces (some 300 altogether, including copyreaders, assistant editors, re-writemen, etc.), many a young reporter's talent often tends to drown...
...with White Ties. This destiny was invisible to Fitzroy Maclean when, in 1936, aged 25, he sat sullenly at a British embassy desk in Paris and decided that he had already had a bellyful of life as a conventional diplomat-"those pinstriped suits from Scholte; those blue and white shirts, from Beale and Inman, with their starched collars . . . big official dinner parties, with white ties and decorations . . ." Rushing to diplomacy's opposite extreme, Maclean became "the first member of the service" ever to plead to be transferred to "such a notoriously unpleasant post" as the British embassy in Moscow...
...Tape. They were quickly disillusioned. With the war on, Maclean was as repelled by his cozy desk job as his superiors were determined that he should stay in it. In Foreign Office Regulations, Diplomat Maclean found the loophole he was looking for: an inexorable rule that any civil servant who participated in politics would have to resign. Hurrying around to his chief, Sir Alexander Cadogan (for the last four years Britain's delegate to U.N.), Maclean declared a sudden passion for political controversy. "In that case," replied Sir Alexander with icy brevity, "you will have to leave the Service...