Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PERHAPS on some desk in the Kremlin a date on a calendar was marked with a note, "Nixon in Peru," and a few days later another: "Nixon in Venezuela." But the explosive receptions that greeted Dick Nixon in those countries on those dates only moved the U.S. to a search for answers. "I was an American," wrote a TIME correspondent in Caracas, "and here before my eyes the Vice President of the U.S. was on the verge of very possibly being beaten to death. How in God's name could something like this be happening?" For some answers...
...TOWN VACATIONS: "I do not believe that any individual, whether he is running General Motors or the United States of America, can do the best job by just sitting at a desk and putting his face in a bunch of papers . . . Actually [the President] ought to be trying to keep his mind free of inconsequential detail and doing his own thinking on the basic principles and factors that he believes are important, so that he can make clearer and better judgments...
...Cover) Green eyeshade under a crop of white hair, heavy shoulders bent over an ancient desk, the Harvard Law School's Dean Emeritus Roscoe Pound wrote slowly, pouring the wisdom of his 87 years into his speech for Law Day, U.S.A.: "The law is the highest inheritance the sovereign people has, for without the law there would be no sovereign people and no inheritance...
Paling in rage, Gaillard smashed his fist down on his desk with a bang that sent papers flying: "I repeat. It is not true. I am overwhelmed that a man of your quality uses arguments of this nature...
...going to work an hour early each morning to study his Bible. But a pious cop is not necessarily a good cop. Police Chief Dallas Bias found the new Hager "ineffectual" because he kept trying to help suspects instead of digging up evidence and hammering out confessions. Transferred to desk duty, Hager still seemed miscast. Chief Bias went to the mayor. "How about setting up a chaplaincy for the force?" he suggested...