Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salaries paid until November from his own $20,000 maximum campaign contribution). He is fretful when time is lost, and his relaxation sometimes takes curious channels. One night he flew to the West Coast, spent the next day padding through art museums, flew home next night, arrived at his desk in the morning with the comment: "Gee, that was a good rest...
...began when Abdul Hakim, speaker of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, managed to destroy the government's slim parliamentary majority by disqualifying half a dozen government deputies for unlawfully holding state jobs on the side. Outraged government deputies laid down a barrage of paperweights, desk panels and curtain rods, chased him out the door, voted him "insane." Thereupon one of their men, Deputy Speaker Shahid Ali, took over his place...
When parliament met again, the new speaker readmitted the six deputies. Opposition members exploded with fury. They tore their desks from the floor ripped their microphones out of their stands, and charged. Steel microphone stands whipped at Ali's face, a desk panel struck him full on the head, and he went down in a pool of blood. After steel-helmeted cops arrived to break up the melee, sergeants-at-arms bore Mr. Speaker off to a hospital on a stretcher. He died two days later, the first presiding officer of any parliament in the history of the British...
First Caller. Sorrowfully, Alcorn got word to Adams, then off fishing in Canada, that he was wanted back in Washington. Adams knew that there was only one possible reason for his required return. He was back at his White House desk by 8 o'clock the following Monday...
...carried in the purse. A wire around the owner's arm sets off the alarm when the handbag is grabbed. Last week the company came out with something for the boys: electrified pants. The hot pants, which have heating wires woven into the fabric, are designed for desk workers in unheated plants; the pants are simply plugged into an electrical outlet. At $14 a pair, the pants went over so well that the company plans to bring out walking hot pants heated with batteries...