Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt free to wander into the kitchen of his Gettysburg farm to order "nice fresh corn" for lunch. His habits, too, were those of the same old Ike. He arose at 7 or 7:15 each morning, showered, shaved, had a small steak for breakfast, and was at his desk by 8 or 8:15. After lunch, he took an hour-long nap, then worked until 5:30, downed a Scotch highball before dinner, often returned to his work at night. Usually in bed by 10:30, he often relaxed-as he had during the days of World...
...afternoon before he flew to Europe, President Eisenhower thoughtfully drew a State Department policy paper out of the ''urgent study" pile on his desk. Its contents: a report on the Communist guerrilla bands swarming antlike out of Red China's puppet state of North Viet Nam into the Utah-sized nation of Laos (see FOREIGN NEWS). This "very dangerous" situation signaled the revival of full-scale guerrilla warfare in Indo-China for the first time since Red China agreed at Geneva in 1954 to stop it. The President, approving State's recommendations, cranked up machinery...
When lunchtime came, Mrs. Lockwood opened jars of baby food, arranged them on a clerk's desk. The children dug in greedily, splattered strained apricots and sweet potatoes generously over a stack of tax reports. Robbie started to cough on his food, and a nerve-shredded clerk told Mrs. Lockwood not to let him choke. "Mind your own business," she snapped. "It's my baby, not yours...
Reopen the Case. In Taipei, Formosa, Suspected Thief Lin Chao-chin protested his innocence until he was caught pilfering a pack of cigarettes from a policeman's desk...
...Smith to keep the peace in Little Rock, and Orval Faubus could only stand ready to cash in on failure. If rioters could break through Smith's police line, Faubus could again declare an emergency. Already on his desk as the schools opened were orders calling out state police and instructing the National Guard to lock the schools...