Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Campbell was catching up on his piloting after a year spent flying a desk at the Imperial Defense College in-London. Soon he will tour U.S. airbases, perhaps visit Alaska. Then he will be ready to rule the middle kingdom between the U.S. and the strategic north...
Gangrene & Thin Gruel. Last week when his transfer was announced, pink-cheeked Father Gannon stretched back from his littered desk with feelings of relief and regret. At 55, he still had plenty to say about education; he acknowledged that he had not accomplished all that he wanted in his 13 years at Fordham. Thinking back on it, Father Gannon remarked that his assignment had been "interesting" and "constantly varied" but there had been drawbacks. He had felt "illiteracy climbing up my legs like gangrene," seen his own writing turn to "thin gruel." Moreover, there had been little time for reading...
...Madrid's Club Mercantil had been taken, but still the people came. Mink-coated ladies and threadbare scholars jostled for places behind the doors, crowded onto the balcony overlooking the hall. They waited patiently for the wiry little man with unruly white hair to step to the gold desk on the dais. When he did, they burst into cheers. They clapped and shouted so long that they seemed almost hysterical. The little man smiled, slowly raised his arms for silence. Then he began to speak...
...reception desk of the sleazy, Left Bank Hótel des Etats-Unis, a young German was explaining that he had come from Munich to see Herr Davis. A bearded Italian brandished a sheaf of papers. They were, he said, the applications...
...fictitious killing at Hyannis, on Cape Cod, will serve as the basis of the plot, Taylor said. Further details of the plot were unavailable last night, since the latest edition of the script had not reached Taylor's desk...