Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...door of the office swung open, I saw Kennedy behind his desk with a dark face reading TIME. "Where'd you get this story about me posing for the cover of Gentlemen's Quarterly? It's all a lie." I really did not know anything about the story, I stammered, but would find...
...blew up, got red in the face, threw the magazine down on his desk, ranted about how we were out to destroy him, then marched around his desk and shook his fist in my face. "People remember other people for one thing," he ranted on. "They remember Calvin Coolidge for wearing an Indian headdress. They remember Arthur Godfrey for buzzing the tower at Teterboro Airport. They will remember me for posing for a clothing magazine...
...only thing missing is a cocktail bar and lounge, with a piano player next to the circulation desk," he said...
...counter in the lobby say the settlement house system was founded at the turn of the century to organize language classes, job files and job training for recent immigrants. "As you can see by the architecture, this lovely building was built in the late sixties," the woman working the desk says in her best tour guide voice. The second student continues, "We still have language classes, but now there's a lot more emphasis on technology and exhibits and computer classes for kids." Oddly, there are no kids around. Actually, no one is around, and the volunteers' goodbyes echo across...
...time I got to college, though, I'd decided that I wanted to be a history professor. I was excited by the prospect of ensconcing myself in Widener Library behind a hard wooden desk, poring over the relatively obscure works of Nicolo Machiavelli, illuminating the great thinker's inner thoughts...