Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking bearishly cherubic in his fur-collared greatcoat, Sir Winston Churchill, 82, slowly debarked from a plane at London Airport after a two-month holiday on the French Riviera. His mind decades younger than his body, Sir Winston had busied himself at his easel and a writing desk, where he was completing his History of the English-Speaking Peoples...
...Pasha." That afternoon Menderes, who for years has suggested that Inonu is little better than a superannuated blunderer, rose at his front desk to praise "my pasha" as "a statesman who holds an assured place in history as one of Turkey's greatest men." Then he said: "The government is willing to consider all the issues presented by the Opposition if they are presented in moderate ways...
Only a Handful. Having passed the first hurdles, Giovanna was ordered into a U.N.-type interpreter's booth for a more difficult test: the simultaneous rendering into Italian of a speech in French, a second in English. Finally she took her place behind a "delegate's desk" and was ordered to do the same thing all over again, this time translating the text on sight. The ordeal over, the professors made their decision: Giovanna had passed...
Under a Palm. Until messages for Attorney Michel went unanswered for several days, nobody at the hotel missed the tourists, but finally the police were called. Searching the rooms, the police found all in perfect order: baggage seemingly untouched, an unfinished letter on Mrs. Hallock's desk. In short order the case bounced onto front pages around the U.S. Alarmed at the potential damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed...
Fringes & Flints. As the Prudential's seventh president in 81 years, Carrol Shanks sits behind Old John Dryden's huge mahogany desk, in a suite of offices in Newark built in the days when insurance men spent heavily for purposes of prestige. Hand-carved Honduras mahogany frames the president's doors and windows; the walls are covered with silver-filigreed blue paper, the ceiling fringed with gold leaf; deep piled rugs smother the floor. Shanks sometimes works in his shirtsleeves, dials his own phone...