Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty minutes before the rapping of gavels convened the 85th Congress, a massive, bull-shouldered man entered the empty Senate chamber and moved with long strides to his desk in the front row, right side. For a few moments he sat alone among the curving rows, rustling through the pile of documents he had brought with him. Then one by one, two by two, his colleagues began drifting in through the swinging doors. The man leaped to his feet, began greeting each and every one with booming-voiced gladness, in the manner of one who truly loves his club...
...President himself spoke for Summerfield: because of an 1872 act that ends the Postmaster General's appointment after one presidential term and one month more, Ike named the onetime Republican national chairman to the job all over again. "Engine Charlie" Wilson spoke for himself. Returning to his desk after a holiday visit to Michigan, he told newsmen he expected to remain in the Cabinet until the defense budget has been approved by Congress next spring or summer. But he added: "I might change my mind, of course. A man never knows what is going to happen to him these...
DECEMBER. Confidential strikes again, saying that if students put a code number on their book cards, they can get call girls at the call desk. Time magazine names Richard Nixon man-of-the-year. Stephen Aaron and the H.D.C. land in Moscow to film the October Revolution...
...least twice each year, for as long back as we can remember, we have sat down at our desk, and begun to think what a great invention the typewriter is, and how useful it would be in an examination room. But nothing has ever come of our notion, and the fact that we repeat it now is not an indication that we really expect the Faculty to consider the matter in January, but merely a nod to the passing of time and an assurance, to those of you who doubt, that there are still some things in this world that...
...proper equations, and 2) they would have to do so much figuring that they could not keep up with the weather, let alone forecast it. British Meteorologist L. F. Richardson described in 1922 a forecasting center built like a gigantic theater, with 64,000 mathematicians frantically busy with desk computers. A modern computing machine can figure as fast...