Word: desk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the morning's announcements start, John David is at his desk preparing for math and science. The voice over the loudspeaker reads a poem. "Accept me for me./ Even though I am not the image of your fantasy,/ I am striving to be the best I can be./ Please accept me for me." Despite the fidgeting, the students seem attentive...
Congressional leaders aim to send the final product to President Reagan's desk by August...
...Loye Miller tells him of an invitation from a TV talk show. "Crossfire wants you Saturday," he says. "Not Saturday," replies Bennett, a homebody who scorns the Potomac syndrome of "working the restaurants at night." He snorts, "A big status thing in Washington is 20 pink slips on your desk covered with stuff at 7:30 in the evening. My desk is clear. You work hard and then go to your family...
...show-biz instincts. In the 1940s he sued the concessionaire in a New York stadium on behalf of a man hit by a soda bottle thrown from the stands. The vendor argued that nothing could have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk a mysterious brown bag that tantalized the jurors. Not until his final argument did he open the bag to dramatically take from it a paper cup. "This is what they could have done to protect my client," he announced. He won the case. Ever since, chastened stadium concessionaires nationwide have...
...leaned forward in my chair, a trembling hand outstretched, an insistent question broke through my reverie: "Is everything clear?" "Right you are," I answered smartly. "The new version will be on your desk this afternoon." Back in my office, though, it was hard to concentrate. The little cursor on the blank computer screen blinked incessantly, like an accusing Cyclops. I felt like Sisyphus, endlessly, futilely pushing a rock up a hill. Oh, that I were Nabu, the Mesopotamian god of writing and destiny, whose powers could alter the days allotted to men in this life...