Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, someday when I can't seem to get the sentences unsnarled, I might push back from my desk and say wearily, "The writing process is a mass of protoplasm containing a nucleus surrounded by a flexible outer membrane...
...that rest by the front door, and selects his "recession flag," hanging it outside for all of Epsom to see. An old flier nailed to a wooden post announces a sale commemorating his marital difficulties, which culminated in what Bruce calls "the Great American Divorce." The radio by the desk plays soft dobro music...
...brightest. And for the now-mature over-achievers that we all know and love as friends here, the presidency seemed to offer that. Besides being confirmed as among the top of their class, what little kid wouldn't want to plop his or her feet up on the desk of the Oval Office and smoke a nice wooden pipe...
...style, the two heads of this campaign's bitterest rivalry are not so much fire and ice as ice and ice. Businesslike but affable, Reed, 35, is efficiency personified. His desk is so meticulously organized that he can pinpoint an individual document in the stacks of neatly piled papers. Pale and intense, Dal Col, 39, resembles a 15th century monk in a Renaissance painting. Yes, he too is efficient ("Both Scott and I make lists of lists," he says), but Dal Col is strung a little tighter. "He never loses his temper," Dal Col says of Reed. "I sometimes blow...
...sitting at my desk when the door starts opening and this guy looks in," Saunders said. "He tried to shut the door, but I came out [into the hallway] and he said, 'I'm just looking for my friend,' with an attitude...