Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battery of questions from the local press, the scepticism of many, a discouraging wave of injuries which resulted in something of a "jinx" year for the football team, and the demands made from both the Ivy Towers and the clubrooms. Yet he can still smile shyly from behind his desk in the Indoor Athletic Building and say honestly, "I'm certainly looking forward to next year...
...year which everyone concedes is quite favorable to the Democratic Party, Kennedy has been an extremely busy politician. The Senator did not originally intend to run hard, but all plans were changed when the September primary returns made their way to his vacation desk...
...third infraction was charged at Eliot House. "Unsigned propaganda sheets strongly attacking the NSA were available on the voting desk, strategically placed between the ballots and the ballot box," charged Anthony M. J. Lanyi '61, a member of Eliot House...
...glanced down at the photographs of his dead friends, tucked under the glass top of his desk. "All the great are gone, one way or another. It is my turn. To come in second behind an Ascari or a Fangio is still a triumph, but to come in second behind an unknown beginner because his young reflexes are quicker or his inexperience pushes him to take unnecessary risks can be tough for an aging champ. It will not happen to me. I will never go near a race track again, not even as a spectator...
...early exercise involuntarily, and a self-made millionaire like Sloan and Kettering, Herbert Hoover has long since dropped the daily gym exercises that won him fame as head of the "medicine-ball Cabinet." Still, his energy seems almost unlimited. He rises early, usually around 6:30, is at his desk in his Waldorf-Astoria office by 9:30 a.m., directing a platoon of secretaries and research assistants, writing manuscripts (most notably and recently, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson) in longhand. Though he naps for an hour or two after lunch, Hoover is far from having slowed his overall pace...