Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produced the most tremendous sensation yet. He would name a man "now connected" with the State Department who was "the top Russian espionage agent" in the U.S. Said McCarthy: "This man I'm talking about was Hiss's onetime boss in the espionage ring. He has a desk in the State Department and has access to the files-or at least he had until four or five weeks...
McCarthy sat in his Senate office wearing an air of conspiratorial secrecy. He tapped a pencil on his desk and kept the tap water running in the washbasin to foil, said he, any hidden microphones. McCarthy confided the name of the "Russian agent" to only the committee, and to a few newspapermen. Soon, every cab driver and casual Washington visitor knew that McCarthy's "top Russian agent" was Owen J. Lattimore, director of Johns Hopkins' School of International Relations...
...have on my desk as I write this a group of textbooks in "psychology." They are thick and austere, their covers are emblazoned with deceptively academic titles like "Contemporary Psychopathology," or "Readings in Contemporary Psychology." But within the heavy bindings of these books can be found some of the most blatant examples of man's cruelty to child since the days of Richard...
Solberg complained yesterday that the desk was too small, the bookcase too big, and there were no cushions provided for the hard window seat. he admitted, however, that the new modern furniture was more beautiful than the older...
...schools. As director of Moscow University, she motors in a long black Zis (the U.S.S.R.'s copy of the Packard) from her husband's Kremlin quarters, dresses in severe, mannish suits, is served by two housemaids, rates an office with a thick Persian rug, a mahogany desk, a daily vaseful of roses, an ornate silver samovar...