Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he received visitors in his paneled office, where an antique pendulum clock loudly ticks among the modern furnishings. Usually he slid out from behind his big desk to sit beside the visitor on a comfortable red leather sofa. At week's end he watched as chubby, square-jawed James Webb was sworn in as his Under Secretary. Said Acheson: "I have here your commission . . . I hand it to you and congratulate myself...
Douglas MacArthur and Hirohito shared the same festive day. The general celebrated his 69th birthday, the Emperor his 25th wedding anniversary. Hirohito knocked off work for the day and had a little party; MacArthur stuck to his desk, except for the time it took to slice a cake...
...things get bad enough students may also be asked to help out with desk work in the maintenance department, according to the resolution...
...keeps them pulling together with the purring power of a V-8-President Charles Erwin Wilson. A $236,000-a-year captain of industry, "C.E.," as his friends call him, is a reserved, blue-eyed boss who thinks fast, talks slow and never wastes his time pounding the desk. Slightly jowly, with a pleasant smile, he has neither bombast nor bulk (he is 5 ft. 10 in., 175 lbs.). He talks with a mild Midwest twang, walks with a slight stoop as if bucking a breeze. Both his tie and his crop of snow-white hair are usually a little...
...although most of the film's emotional sock is in the bit parts of the men who flew missions, well played by John Hodiak, Cameron Mitchell, Marshall Thompson and Michael Steele. Like the play and the book before it, the movie makes out a sympathetic case for the desk-bound generals and echoes Novelist-War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway's observation that generals are good people...