Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucy moves into the dressing room that Ginger Rogers once occupied as queen of RKO and keeps an eye on the commissary (she hates "bad studio food"), Desi will reign in an oak-and-leather throne room, surrounded by deep pile, a disappearing bar, and a putter alongside the desk. The new Hollywood tycoon is already awakening echoes of older ones. As workmen remodeled buildings for directors, producers and writers, he said: "Those cubbyholes were no good. Our offices are going to be twice that size. These are creative people, and creative people gotta have room to think." Madelyn Pugh...
...should the borrower have to feel embarrassed about a loan? It is nothing but schizophrenia that makes installment buying of life [things needed now] immoral and installment buying of death [life insurance] moral. And I'd like to see the lending man get up from his desk and smile and shake hands with the prospective borrower, no matter how poor a credit risk he appeared...
...pampered paladins of the newspaper business are the sportswriters who freeload Florida sun and Kentucky dew while their less glamorous associates are slaving back home over typewriters and copy desk rim. Thus it was with a small apologetic note about their "pretty good life" that the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith reported a wave of indignation among his colleagues last week. New York sportswriters, wrote Smith in his syndicated column, are getting the Bums' rush from their longtime friends and hosts, the Los Angeles Dodgers, last year the Dodgers of Brooklyn...
...Paar, who has a temperament as tender as a tenor's. She complained on the air that Jack wouldn't let her do the song-and-dance turns she wanted to. Once she pointed to the red light signaling silence for a commercial on Paar's desk and chirped: "Oh, I'm not supposed to talk when that's on, am I?" (Retorted Jack: "Dody, you know I told you not to talk about that.") When Paar appeared with a new toupee, Dody hit the vulnerable spot: "Don't you look different tonight, Jack...
...word coming more and more into Pentagon usage is "overkill"-a blunt but descriptive term implying a power to destroy a military target not once but many times more than necessary. On Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's desk last week lay the paper plans that will soon add up to a problem of overkill: each of the services is ready to offer one or more complete weapons systems, each one promising to achieve nuclear annihilation of Russian targets. McElroy's problem: How much is enough-or to put it another way, how many times...