Word: desk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the end of the world, and Charles Alexander's lunch of salad and Pepsi Free sat untouched on his paper-strewn desk. Alexander, the editor of TIME's Economy & Business section, had spent the past nine hours blocking out this week's 24-page cover on the cataclysmic demise of the five- year-old bull market. Just after the market closed on Black Monday, editorial queries went out to an army of more than 25 TIME correspondents in 20 financial capitals around the world. Before long, their reports would begin hitting the In baskets of 30 editors, writers...
Last January, Jack C. Patterson '88--a starting safety on the team--made a racist phone call to a Black attendant at the Currier House bells desk. The student had already been the victim of an earlier physical attack: four students had shattered a Currier window with an orange...
Patterson called the student at the desk, saying, "Negro hit squad strikes again." Greg Williams '88, a defensive lineman, followed up Patterson's call with a non-racial but intimidating call of his own. The Ad Board found that the four people who shattered the window were unaware of the phone calls...
...offices of Marc Bazin, a leading candidate who was fired in 1982 after four months as Jean-Claude Duvalier's Finance Minister, nervous guards still frisk visitors. Louis Dejoie, whose father opposed Francois Duvalier in the 1957 election that brought the dictator to power, keeps a pistol on his desk. When Dejoie is told that a U.S. embassy official has suggested army escorts, he laughs: "Could we trust them...
Encountered against a backdrop of wine and cheese, lifelong Martins Ferry Resident Annie Tanks remembers young Jim appearing at her desk to check out poetry books when she was town librarian. "Just about closing time, there he'd be," she says. When asked whether Wright's bleak lines paint an accurate picture of her birthplace, Tanks dips her head and studies the floor for just a moment. Then: "It's probably nearer to the feel of the town than the residents would like to admit...