Word: oaken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oaken Canopy. But on entering the great, drafty hall with its canopy of ancient oak, a great silence enfolded them. Footsteps were muffled by brown carpet, and the crowd divided into two lines, which passed on both sides of the catafalque. At the four corners stood tall candles and, nearly as rigid as the candlesticks, the honor guard, which solemnly changed every 20 minutes. As the people of Britain passed the casket, they dropped flowers-snowdrops, white carnations, daffodils. Before going out into Palace Yard, each one paused and looked back. Often dignitaries would enter the hall through another door...
Churchill's bier will first lie in state under the oaken rafters of ancient Westminster Hall, in the palace that houses Parliament. Then it will be placed on a gun carriage and escorted by slow-marching troops through the silent heart of London to St. Paul's Cathedral. Statesmen and soldiers, old comrades and old foes will come from all over the world for the obsequies, which in scale and splendor will be unsurpassed by any funeral for a commoner in British history...
Throughout the summer and fall, the great blue-and-white General Assembly hall had been under the rule of the jackhammer. The semicircular rows of gleaming oaken desks had to be rearranged to make room for the U.N.'s population explosion: 115 members this year, v. 99 in 1960 and 51 at the founding. To pare down the time it takes for all of the delegations to vote, the desks were fitted out with buttons connected to a pair of large electronic boards beside the podium-green lights will flash on for aye, red for nay, yellow for abstention...
...time, no President has stumped him, although all four of the Presidents Romagna has served have given him bad moments. On Pearl Harbor night, Roosevelt installed him in a bathroom adjoining the presidential bedroom to record, unbeknownst to the assembly, a secret Cabinet meeting from behind a 2-in. oaken door. Romagna recalls the experience as "ghastly." There was a phone in the bathroom, and assorted Cabinet members popped in to use it-forcing Romagna to hide behind another door. In 1948, on tour with Harry Truman. Romagna transcribed more than 300 of Truman's 536 campaign speeches, missing...
...compounding emergency, the President worked late almost every night in his White House office. He was constantly on the phone with Secretary Rusk and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, sometimes grabbing the receiver as he walked into his office and beginning to talk before he was settled behind his oaken desk. On Tuesday afternoon the Joint Chiefs of Staff slipped secretly into the White House to review the nation's Berlin contingency plans...