Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single furnished dormitory room costs $5,000 to build and equip; a double room, $10,000. The furniture consists of a brown metal desk with a birch top, a fluorescent desk-lamp, bed form fitting desk-chair, and an easy chair covered with a new simulated leather plastic...
Harry Truman had laid the issue squarely on the line at Thursday's Cabinet session. Fresh from a long chance to do his own thinking at Key West, Fla., he had demanded a clear-cut affirmative Asia policy on his desk before Congress reconvened Jan. 3, proposed that the Cabinet officers produce just such a policy at the meeting of the National Security Council this week. When Louis Johnson pleaded for a little more time, the President said nothing doing. Moreover, he added, he would preside at the meeting himself...
Earlids Wanted. Other victims spoke up. An indignant woman told of waiting in line 15 minutes at the Information Desk, then losing the attendant's reply in a crash of sound; she had to go back and start all over again. Another vowed that she would grow "earlids" if she knew how to. Said Psychiatrist Harold Harris, a commuter: "This noise could be the straw that breaks the camel's back . . . Real physical illness . . . like peptic ulcers or hypertension . . . are due to suppressed rage and hostility...