Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio, the first to show that planes could be used for reconnaissance. The first air mail was a mail sack he flew five miles across Long Island, N.Y., and plopped down in front of the Garden City post office. But he spent World War I chained to a Washington desk...
Ulate was also a citizens' President at his palace desk. Proclaiming that "a little Franciscan poverty" was necessary if the 1950 budget were to balance, he slashed his own salary 23% (to $570 a month), fired a block of office workers, reduced the total number of cars available for government officials to 15. His explanation for abolishing the army was short and to the point. "So long as the government has the confidence of the people," he said, "it has an army...
...Buzzard. It was a desk job and Douglas stood it as long as he could. But he kept pestering the brass for a chance to get into the fighting. His chance came when the ist Division charged ashore at Peleliu. On the second savage day, the adjutant of the 5th Marines was wounded; back to the ships went the message: "If that old white-haired buzzard wants to get in some fighting, let him come ashore." Douglas stayed with the 5th through some of the bloodiest days of the Pacific campaign, won a Bronze Star for carrying ammunition...
Last week the problem lay on the desk of the President of the U.S. for decision. "The choice," said the Washington Post, "may be the most cosmic that has confronted any chief of state in war or peace in American history...
...Dewart, 39, who came up the business side and inherited the publisher's desk on his brother's death four years ago, the decision to sell was a cold question of profit & loss. The Sun was in the red. In his shutdown notice, Dewart blamed rising costs, notably "union demands." The mechanical unions and the Sun's independent editorial union bitterly replied that they had received no raises since 1948, had not been asked to take a cut. There was a more important reason than rising costs: the lackluster Sun had stood still journalistically for decades...