Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Pairs of Glasses. King Saud, who had extended his visit a week beyond the three days originally scheduled, prepared for his departure in high spirits. The President gave the King an eight-piece desk set and an original Eisenhower Colorado landscape; the wealthy monarch's gift to Ike was a well-guarded secret. No secret was the King's enormous gratitude for the way Americans had opened their arms to Saud's lame little son (see below). The King himself was the richer, materially, in five pairs of eyeglasses, which he ordered after an eye examination...
...warm air of southern Georgia, a pair of English setters dubbed Art and George stretched their legs after a ride down from Gettysburg, Pa., and sniffed curiously at the Southland smells. In Washington, clearing his desk in anticipation of two weeks of quail hunting, golf and bridge, the setters' master sniffed now and again in anticipation of a vacation in the same Southland. But whenever Dwight Eisenhower wandered, he was quickly pulled back from Georgia to global strategies. For the mood of Washington last week was wrapped around world affairs. At Ike's press conference, correspondents, subject...
Clean That Plate. Charles's workday now begins at 9:15 after he hangs up his coat and hat on a peg newly labeled "Prince Charles." At the double desk he shares with a London doctor's son, he studies reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography and science, will soon add Latin and elementary anatomy. At 11 a.m. he gets half a pint of free milk that is provided by the government, later pays 35? for a hot lunch. Though addressed as Prince Charles, he must obey all the rules, keep silent during the meal, and clean his plate...
...become Columbia's most cherished hero since Sid Luckman was tossing passes at Baker Field. While his colleagues beam in admiring good will, President Grayson Kirk sings his praises as "an able and exciting teacher," the Graduate English Department information desk bears the legend "Only Charles Van Doren Knows All the Answers." and his students decorate the blackboard with such questions as "For $52,500, what did Plato mean by Justice?" At St. John's, where only two faculty members deign to own TV sets, President Richard Weigle went to a neighborhood bar to catch last week...
...marked VERBOTEN, property of the Preusfische Staats-Eisenbahm," etc.). Julius begged the little monsters: "Now if you will only be good a little longer, you'll be in your own nice beds with a glass of delicious hot milk." And grabbing Robert (who had skipped behind a vacant desk and gone to work with pen and rubber stamp), he rushed the trio off in search of a hotel. But not until day's end did weary Julius find a place that was prepared to admit Robert. Léon and Tzara-and even then, "they were taken...