Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon warriors and civil servants, the Army had a holiday message last week: if you want to wish the man at the next desk Merry Christmas, do it personally this year-don't send a card. Reason for the new regulation: the labyrinthine Pentagon's footsore postmen already carry all the mail they can handle. Signing the regulation: Old Foot Soldier Maxwell D. Taylor, Army Chief of Staff...
Iron Tubs & Partnership. Thirty-five years ago Mohan Oberoi landed his first job as $5.50-a-week desk clerk in Simla's Cecil Hotel, part of the British-owned Associated Hotels Ltd. At the time, India's inns had no room service, no running water. Guests bathed in galvanized iron tubs and brought their own servants, who bedded down in the hotel halls. Oberoi learned fast; by 1927 he was chief clerk at Simla's Clarke's Hotel, and a few years later bought a one-third partnership for $2,000 down, $6,000 later...
...Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, along with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss. As the warm day's light began to fade across the trim White House lawns outside, the inner core of the National Security Council went into a deep huddle around the President's desk...
...bedside, Eden suddenly began to shiver. His temperature soared to 105½°. Doctors put him to bed on the spot, just across the corridor from his wife, and announced he had suffered "a feverish chill." Three days later, Eden was back at his desk, but some colleagues claim he has never been the same since...
There are no suites in 8 Prescott, and all the rooms lack lighting fixtures and uniform heating. Many rooms have no closets, but the University has compensated for these deficiencies by providing residents with foot lockers, floor and desk lamps, and modern furniture...