Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawrence is an honest, hard-working boss. He spends Sundays at his desk, flicks off unnecessary office lights, refuses to trade in his 1950 city Cadillac, and won't even use it in his campaign rounds. He is the most powerful big-city mayor in the U.S., has the say-so over almost 7,000 municipal jobs, keeps tight rein on a nine-man city council whose makeup is determined not so much by personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican...
...driver tries to get out and open the door. But Erhard is already out, Homburg in hand and cigar in mouth, charging toward the ministry entrance like a soccer forward. He waves jovially to the doorkeeper, fairly skips up the steps and down the long hall to his desk...
...special book return desk will be opened today at the rear entrance to Widener Library. Thomas F. O'Connell, senior assistant in the library, announced that the service will operate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. The service will operate indefinitely...
Only fifteen men live in the Monastery at the present time. Each inhabits a monastic cell, a single room equipped with a cot, a spindly desk, one chair, a chest-of-drawers, a closet, and a lamp. There is a wash basin in one corner and a bathroom down the hall. The only adornment on the wall is a crucifix. Simple white curtains frame the window...
...cribbed, mitched, spilt ink, rattled his desk...