Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...represented a sleekly modern office-apartment equipped with a pushbutton intercom system and a radio. The booted, black-uniformed officer listened for a' while to a local radio singer, questioned a corduroy-jacketed "freedom fighter," and chased a redhead in green strapless evening gown about his desk. 'What was going on? Answer: A modern-dress production of Puccini's Tosca...
...Port-au-Prince. But without the re-establishment of public order, no amount of aid could go very far. Sending the Marines was out of the question in the era of the Good Neighbor, but the U.S. Embassy might call in the Haitian politicians and hammer the desk, then sweeten the harsh words with promises of large-scale aid if they would unite patriotically to save their country...
...such a climate the center on Drexel Avenue seems an inauspicious setting. Dowdy, poorly maintained and ill-furnished, it enables Rogers to boast: "Anybody can see that most of our money goes on salaries." Each cramped interviewing room contains only a desk and two chairs. The invariable procedure: invite the client to discuss anything at will. This is somewhat like Freudian free association, but with differences on which Rogers lays great stress: no attempt to dredge for harrowing emotional experiences in childhood or to seek cause-and-effect relationships between past experiences and present difficulties...
...Babble-by-the-Bay." What saves his column from being a paean in the neck is Caen's fresh, irreverent eye and his breezy, gag-filled style. Unlike most gossip columnists, Herb Caen seldom rumples through dirty linen or tries to scoop the city desk, but concentrates instead on the San Franciscana he calls "sightems" or "babble-by-the-bay." Sample Caenanities: "Sign on a Volkswagen: Help Stamp Out Cads"; classified ad for a new home: "All-electric family kitchen, including natural-birth cabinets"; one matron to another matron: "No, she's not keeping the car any more...
...urged to consult the employment office about them. Often the office can offer special assistance and advice on the basis of past experience with certain firms and certain kinds of employment. Often the aids given can be as simple--and as important--as getting a students beyond a reception desk and arranging an appointment with the employment director of a business firm, officers of the employment office pointed...