Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Togliatti gave a mighty swipe of his desk, once more shot to his feet, raced for the government bench. "Let me go!" he shouted as two comrades seized him. "This is too much. He doesn't respect the dead. Let me go!" Other Communists yelled at De Gasperi: "Leave the hall...
...vast, 16th Century palazzo in the heart of Naples lives a stubby, stooped old man whom Neapolitans call "Don Benedetto." Though he is in his 80s, the old man ordinarily rises at 6, and an hour later trudges into his book-lined study to write at his big desk or to sit in his big armchair, thinking. Occasionally Neapolitans see him out strolling, passing dilapidated palaces and ancient churches, to his favorite bookshop on the Via Foria for a bout of friendly dickering. But last week Neapolitans were troubled: out of the palazzo had come the news that Philosopher Benedetto...
...Does It Matter to You?" When Kenneth Oberholtzer moved into Room 212 and sat down at its old rolltop desk, he wasted no time finding out what Denver needed. In his conservative blue suits and quiet ties, he went around to P.T.A. groups, called meetings of teachers and principals to talk things over. He persuaded the University of Denver to make a survey of his schools, then got a committee of 100 leading citizens to determine how much money the schools needed...
...each morning with the shouts and cries of 56,000 schoolchildren flooding through its classrooms. On the surface it is a casual world of blue jeans and T-shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle." They slouch through the halls, let their legs sprawl out under desks. As for chewing gum, said one teacher, "If I tried to stop them I wouldn't have time...
When Du Pont ran short of office space during World War II, its engineers designed a new L-shaped desk which was, in effect, a small semi-enclosed office. The desk had a 6-ft. partition attached to two sides, could be moved anywhere on an open floor. By grouping them judiciously, Du Pont found that it could save 30% of its floor space...