Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarters in various Cambridge rooming houses were constantly littered with papers and books, many of them cast face down on the floor open to the spot where he had stopped reading. He scrawled illegibly on yellow typewriter paper which lay scattered over his desk, bed, chairs, and floor. Five hours sleep was his maximum; he often got much less. Wolfe cared little for his appearance. He went to classes unshaven and unbathed; financial conditions restricted his supply of clothes. It didn't bother him: "I lived in a kind of dream at first, a species of nightmare--at last...
...What will you never do again?" I asked from my seat at Vag's desk, where I like to work while my room-mates have water pistol fights...
...this week at the opening of an antique shop: the plush new quarters of French & Co., oldest and largest U.S. dealer in antiques. What the champagne-sipping Manhattanites saw was a $10 million display of furnishings ranging from Boucher tapestries valued at $175,000 to a Louis XV desk insured for $250,000. French's splashy housewarming was only part of an antique boom that has sent a stream of pre-1830 European furniture to the U.S. (1957 imports: $14.2 million), has even sent European buyers scurrying here to shop...
...might suspect, Mace is a tall, trim, and solidly built man, who wears black horn-rimmed glasses for reading, smokes mentholated cigarettes, and works at his desk in shirtsleeves that are clean enough to smell white. His disposition is unbearable until he has had his first cup of coffee in the morning, but Mace explains this as "an old Norwegian habit...
From the moment he left his desk at the Korea Times in Seoul last June, Managing Editor Choi Byung Woo was plagued with troubles. The amiable, book-loving newsman had hardly started his tour of Southeast Asia when British plainclothesmen nabbed him in Malaya for asking searching questions of a British naval officer at the bar in Singapore's Cockpit Hotel. The embarrassed police quickly established that asking questions was Choi's business; he chuckled and headed for Formosa. Early in September Choi was one of the first newsmen to hit the beaches of beleaguered Quemoy, safely wading...