Word: pile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kanfer's office in its normal state is legendary for its clutter. As the Christmas volumes pile ever higher, it becomes increasingly difficult to maneuver to the editor's desk. Says Kanfer: "The maids used to say, 'Oh, Mr. Kanfer, if you would just clean your office once a week, it would be so nice.' Now they say, 'Oh, Mr. Kanfer, if you would just clean your office once a month . . .' " What Kanfer does not mention is that he was once assaulted by a cleaning lady driven to violence over the impenetrable litter...
...paper over an ink-impregnated flannel cloth that is taped over a typed stencil. Another man quickly rolls an old-fashioned washing-machine wringer down the page from top to bottom. A woman deftly lifts the sheet with a pair of tweezers and lays it on top of a pile on the floor. The printed pages, produced at the rate of 700 an hour, would later be laboriously collated, bound by hand, and delivered to readers of Opinia, an underground monthly published by the dissident group RUCH (the initials in Polish stand for Movement for the Defense of Human...
That pleasure disappeared when the family moved to a suburb of Washington, D.C. Instead my sisters and I now pile into the car every Christmas Eve to roam the various housing subdivisions near where I live, searching for this year's winner of the "Most Garishly Decorated House Award." Aluminum foil doors, wrapped to resemble Christmas gifts, and always a hot item with the locals...
...presidency and his attack upon the forces that brought Nixon down, he is much more reticent about the Richard Nixon he knows today. The signs of Price's continuing ties to the disgraced former president are evident even here at Harvard. During a recent interview, Price pointed to a pile of papers of his desk at the Institute of Politics--a draft of a section from the memoirs he is reading for Nixon. It is apparently a routine occurrence for Julie Nixon Eisenhower or Rose Mary Woods to telephone for Price at the institute. Occasionally, even Nixon himself reportedly calls...
Charles Schultze, chairman of the CEA. Although temporarily eclipsed last spring after his $50 rebate proposal was dumped, Schultze has regained his influence. Says one Administration aide: "Charlie's forecasts of economic progress land on the President's desk at the top of the pile." Currently, Schultze is urging a new stimulus program to keep the economy from lowing down late next year...