Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South from the Battlefield. Feet on his desk, Charlie Wilson laughed delightedly when he read newspaper accounts of his wife's defense and the echoing uproar. But he seemed to feel no need for defenders. Good-naturedly but firmly, he held his ground, conceding only that his language was "a little tough" and that he never meant to cast "any reflection on the individual young men who joined the National Guard during the Korean conflict." He kept right on plugging the six-months-training directive, pointing out that "more than 80% of the National Guard today...
...soft-spoken Swabian who thinks like a general but looks like a professor (he once taught history at Tübingen University), Speidel is a cultivated specimen of the oldtime German general staffer. On his desk he keeps two photographs-one of the late General Ludwig Beck, the stiff-backed martinet who headed the German general staff 20 years ago, the other of turn-of-the-century German Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann...
Before he could even get his feet under the desk, Sandys flew off to Washington, the first ranking member of the new British government to visit the U.S. His mission: to talk with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson about sharing the cost and the knowledge on guided missiles, which is where Sandys plans to concentrate Britain's new defense efforts. A missiles buff since he commanded Britain's first experimental AA rocket regiment in World War II, and later the man who sold his father-in-law, Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory...
Cold Pro. In Boston, two days after he offered Bay State motorists a column of "Tips on Cold Day Starting," Automotive Editor Harry Stanton of the Globe called the city desk, told why he was late for work: his car didn't have enough antifreeze...
Brothers and Sisters concerns Sophia and Christian Stace, who have been happily married for more than a quarter-century. Then one day poor Christian opens the fateful desk and finds a letter saying that he and Sophia had a common father. How could that happen, even in a Compton-Burnett plot? This way: Christian had never known who his father was. had grown up simply as the "adopted son" of Sophia's father, old Andrew Stace. In point of fact-as the letter now reveals-he was old Andrew's illegitimate son by a neighbor of theirs...