Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...within camera range, Senator Bob Smith changed his seat from the third row to the second. The neatest desk belonged to Lott, fitting for a man who presses his shirts after they come back from the laundry. He's so efficient he called for a 15-min. break before poor Representative Ed Bryant had actually finished speaking. The press section, fearing that perhaps we were not witnessing the trial of the century, was relieved when Dominick Dunne, the reporter of record for the previous trial of the century, in Los Angeles, finally arrived...
...tide coming in and sweeping it all away," he admits. "History is stiff with writers who have been praised in terms exceeding anything my generation has received, and you think, 'Well, where are they now?' It's a chastening thought." But not one, fortunately, that keeps him from his desk for long...
Susan Shefte, the administrative director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute (RPPI), is the fourth high-level Radcliffe official to depart from the college in the last six months-just days after Radcliffe Director of Communications Lyn Chamberlin cleaned out her desk...
...even Quentin Tarantino produces this many corpses. Monday-morning quarterbacking gave way to Monday-morning desk clearing last week when five NFL head coaches were fired even before the regular season ended, setting one of the league's more inglorious records. The Seattle Seahawks' DENNIS ERICKSON, the Philadelphia Eagles' RAY RHODES, the Baltimore Ravens' TED MARCHIBRODA, the Chicago Bears' DAVE WANNSTEDT and the Carolina Panthers' DOM CAPERS were all unemployed by Monday night. With heads rolling like loose balls, an expansion team set to debut and more coaches on shaky ground, 11 positions may need filling for next season...
Nixon was always a remote figure. I rarely saw him without a staff member or a big desk or a white shirt and tie between us. The real Nixon was a tortured man in so many ways, fearful of not looking right or being untidy in his habits. He was just plain uncoordinated and floppy. His smiles and frowns were sometimes not in synch with his words. I recall a treaty-signing ceremony in the Kremlin in which Nixon was momentarily the lone American participant on the stage. He seemed utterly perplexed about what to do with his feet...