Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk in the U.S. embassy on Tchaikovsky Street in Moscow one afternoon last week, Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. got a telephone message from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Would 6 o'clock that evening be all right for the first preliminary talks about a summit meeting? It was. Thompson put on his coat and Homburg, got into his Cadillac, went off to confer with Gromyko. Time of conference: 35 minutes. Next day Britain's Ambassador Sir Patrick Reilly heard the telephone's ring, also got 35 minutes with Gromyko. France's Ambassador Maurice Dejean...
...other big appropriation on his desk was the $7.2 billion highway bill. Eisenhower didn't like its dimensions very well either. He had wanted to speed up highway spending by $2.2 billion over the next four years, but the Democrats had pumped this up to $1.8 billion in the next fiscal year alone. Far more serious, in the President's eyes, was the fact that the bill abandoned the established principle that states should pay 50% on primary and secondary highways, provided instead that they should only pay 33¼%, and that the Federal Treasury should advance that...
Bracing his lanky Texas frame against his polished first-row desk, Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson early one evening last week delivered his latest plea for nonpartisanship in the U.S. Senate. He had a good partisan reason. Far from indulging in nonpartisanship as Lyndon likes it, Republican Senators were heightening their resistance to pell-mell Democratic antirecession spending...
...change of mood." Whether the President's get-going fettle was brought on by complete recovery from his stroke, or by the feel of spring, or by other causes, it showed unmistakably in stepped-up work done (TIME, April 14), in showings-at press conferences and at his desk-of a new jauntiness and zest for issues...
...Student Council had suggested that the later hours would not involve much extra work, since the Library could be used exclusively for study purposes, with only one desk remaining open. "Lamont is now open 95 hours a week and we feel this is sufficient," Ernst commented...