Word: drawerfuls
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...must anticipate the passing of the famous and the infamous: an obituary hastily flung together after the fact often pays too little respect to the subject, to the past, or to journalism. U.P.I.'s "preparation stories," as the wire service calls its advance obits, fill a dozen four-drawer filing cabinets, and include such youthful candidates as John F. Kennedy Jr., 4, and the children of Queen Elizabeth...
...students actually woke up at about 6:15 a.m. while the thief was opening a dreser drawer. Dazed, the student asked what the youth was doing in his room. The thief replied "Is Jay--here?" Still dazed, the student mumbled "No," where upon the thief made a rapid exit from the room. Fully awake by this time, the student rushed after him, but the thief had disappeared...
...Dictator of Syria, Adib Shishekly always feared assassination and took infinite pains to avoid it. He carried one gun in a shoulder holster, kept another in his desk drawer. In Damascus he maintained four homes besides his official palace, slipped from one to the other for a meal or a night's sleep...
Lodge takes a rear elevator to his sparsely furnished fifth-floor office, unstraps his revolver, puts it into a desk drawer alongside a .357 Smith & Wesson Magnum. The Magnum has been there since last October, when Lodge received his umpteenth warning of a plot against his life. The ambassador regards the lethal little gat rather wryly. Says he: "I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer...
Before joining Papa in Cairo this week, Sergei, now 29, visited London with a top-drawer delegation of Soviet aviation experts headed by Air Minister Petr Dementiev. Outranked by most of his associates, he remained respectfully mum in their presence. Most of the time he was too busy to talk. As the delegation was feted and followed for twelve days through Britain's top aircraft plants, at banquets, soccer matches, theatrical performances and historic monuments in England, Scotland and the Channel Islands, Sergei shot enough 16-mm. cinefilm to reach from Krasnovodsk to Komsomolsk...