Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vouch for the lamp whose shade was of human skin, as it was on my desk, as were several other unmounted pieces. The pieces of skin used for the lamp shades were those bearing large tattoos and were reportedly selected by "Use the Bitch" from the living inmates. The finished product was not unlike a heavy parchment, and all the items were collected by the War Crimes Commission...
...Storm Gathers. Around Admiral Holloway at his desk at BuPers, the cold war crowded in from Korea through Indo-China to the Middle East...
Persons rounded up 22 high-ranking Republicans and Democrats from Congress by 2:30. The President greeted them individually as they filed into his office and took chairs in a semicircle around his desk. "Gentlemen," said Ike, "I have asked you to come down here as I do on all matters of great urgency involving international developments." Then, in general terms, he outlined the Lebanon and Iraq situations. "I have discussed this with my people here and in the National Security Council," he added, "but I must emphasize that no decision has been made. I want to give...
...Alabaman "Cat" Brown, bossing this 418,000-ton, 76-ship armada is "the best job in the whole Navy." An unruly plebe at Annapolis, he logged 300 demerits, squeezed out near the bottom of his class ('21). The exuberant Brown spirit chafed at a rash of peacetime desk jobs, boiled over in 1943. "I've got a carrier [the Kalinin Bay], and I'd like a job of work," he told Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Snapped Spruance: "You've got one." For two years the Kalinin Bay escort carrier steamed through the thick...
...House of Commons, Eisenhower arose to the drumming of open hands on desk tops to make the definitive speech of his visit. He came bearing concessions but no apologies. In a chamber that has rung on occasion with harsh judgments of Washington's words and works, he defended in plain words the policies that he was not prepared to alter. Items...