Word: desk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because every time during the next few months when it snows or freezes, all I have to do is open my desk drawer and see those nine tickets sitting there and I'm fine...
...Cross the snow Santa ran to his desk full of paper...
...said the report was to be on the vice president's desk yesterday and, after review, to the appropriate congressional committees and to a special counsel expected to be appointed soon to look into Iranian arms sales and profits from them being diverted to the Contras...
...proceed to write my Gov paper," I said to myself. I reached into my desk to take out a few sheets of typing paper. But scattered across the top of the ream of Berkshire Bond was an unshuffled, disordered deck of cards...
...field, not behind the desk, where North thrived. For some in the NSC, North was a modern musketeer living out foreign-policy fantasies. In the summer of 1984, as congressional aid to the contras was being cut off, North journeyed to a rebel camp in Honduras. "I told them I'd be personally responsible for seeing they got what they needed," he reported to a friend. He radiated impatience with bureaucratic desk jockeys and always seemed to be on the move. Once, after arranging to meet someone for a drink, he showed up 45 minutes late, barked, "Okay, bottoms...