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Word: desks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Normally buried beneath a mound of pencil shavings and paper clips in the recesses of a desk drawer, the little black and white pamphlet has furnished a Harvard composer with the storyline for a suitably baroque oratorio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules and Regulations Set to Music; Booklet Becomes Baroque Oratorio | 11/14/1966 | See Source »

...diplomacy. Days, including Saturday and most of Sunday, have begun shortly after 8 a.m., ended 13 hours later. After 21 straight days without going home for dinner, Katzenbach finally had his family to supper with him at Foggy Bottom, then plowed through the torrent of dispatches at his desk while his children watched Tarzan on the undersecretarial color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State Department: New U in the Fudge Factory | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...five foot square chunk of the ceiling of Sever 36 fell in on Professor Raoul Bott's Math 11 class yesterday morning upsetting a wastebasket, a chair, and a desk and covering students in the front row with dust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bit of Sever's Ceiling Interrupts Math Class | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

...cage. He took advantage of the lack of crises to travel around North Africa, particularly Morocco, for which he developed an enduring love. (Today his office, which is his castle, is known behind his back as "little Morocco," because it is lined with books on Morocco, and its desk and walls are covered with Moroccan memorabilia...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Robert H. Chapman | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

...after Billy Budd, Chapman wrote The General, a play critical of McCarthy which was given a fine amateur production in Cambridge. In the 14 years since then he has finished only one other play, about Orestes and Electra. The first act-and-a-half of another sits in his desk. He no longer works...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Robert H. Chapman | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

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