Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President ticked off the list of new U.S. weapons: missiles of all shapes and sizes for the Army, Navy and Air Force.* The jewel of his collection was on a red velvet coverlet near his desk as he spoke. It was the 4-ft. nose cone to an Army Jupiter missile. Said the President: "One difficult obstacle on the way to producing a useful long-range weapon is that of bringing a missile back from outer space without its burning up like a meteor . . . This object here in my office is the nose cone of an experimental missile...
Next morning Argov did not appear at the ministry to receive the message that the cyclist was out of danger. Friends broke into his flat, found him sitting at his desk, dead. There was a bullet wound in his temple; by his side, letters to the police and Ben-Gurion. "To my deep regret." said the note to the police, "I cannot bear living in the circumstances which have occurred. I imagine I have some friends who will be sorry for what I am going to do. I beg them not to be angry. I am not worthy...
...What a shocking thing it is to get a report from the Puerto Rican labor office in New York City that [exploited] Puerto Rican immigrants are going to the unemployment desk in that department asking to be referred to jobs where there are no unions. Of course, you can't get much cooperation from a national union the officers of which are practicing the same sort of larceny on a national scale as is being practiced by their so-called local representatives on a local scale...
...Sponsor, a weekly magazine published for Madison Avenue, called them "a peanut gallery spawned out of the police beat by way of the feature desk...
...From the beginning," says Thurber, "Ross cherished his dream of a Central Desk at which an infallible omniscience would sit, a dedicated genius, out of Technology by Mysticism, effortlessly controlling and coordinating editorial personnel, contributors, office boys, cranks and other visitors, manuscripts, proofs, cartoons, captions, covers, fiction, poetry and facts, and bringing forth each Thursday a magazine at once funny, journalistically sound, and flawless. He had persuaded himself that I might be just the wonder man he was looking...