Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working day had begun almost an hour earlier, when his French aide reported to his breakfast table in his nearby official residence to brief him on the day's news in the French press (Gruenther had already whipped through the Paris edition of the Herald Tribune). At his desk, Gruenther hands a secretary six or seven Dictaphone records filled with instructions and answers to letters that he had dictated at home (once she was startled when the stream of instructions was broken by an impatient feminine voice: "Al, for God's sake...
...Republican, father of two, and lives in Montclair, N.J. When his mind wanders from his ledgers, it wanders great distances: he is president of the Friends of Albert Schweitzer College Inc., and keeps a bust of the 81-year-old philosopher-missionary on his Budget Bureau desk...
...college, Governor Hoegh rose to the challenge, proposed a race of from 40 to 100 yards. Michigan's ex-Oarsman Williams was spoiling for a battle-with reservations: "The contest should be in the nature of a decathlon, to include swimming, rowing, wrestling with the legislature, executive-desk pounding...
...personnel to the extraordinarily long hours of the Pope himself, one senses an immensity of detail that is handled quickly and handled well ..." Great decisions are often made quickly, despite protocol and secrecy. "Literally everything is kept under lock and key. The Pope carries the key to his own desk." The notion that the Vatican moves slowly arises from operations "where time is not consequential," e.g., definition of dogma and creation of saints...
Once when Pino called Dinneen to a rendezvous in a hotel room, the reporter went to the phone and told his city desk where he was-just in case. Pino looked hurt. "Joe," he admonished, "you should know you didn't have to do that." When writing his book, Dinneen wanted to use Pino's history as the background of the main character, Tony Turchino, but feared libel. Pino obligingly gave him a written release...