Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years on the job, many leave the service to earn a living in totally different fields in order to escape the tension and responsibility. Belisle, at least, still works for the protective service. But he does not go out on cases. He sits at the phone in the screening room. Phone work, screening incoming reports on child abuse, is at least one remove from the desperate daily reality confronted by field workers. And that is where emotionally exhausted veterans like Belisle take refuge...
...such times Belisle, like other field workers, tries to concentrate on the pain the child has endured and is likely to endure again if it does not escape from home. The screening room file cabinets are filled with case histories: babies with cigarette burns on their tongues; small children whose backs have been scarred with human bite marks; innumerable children with the classic child-abuse injury: the telltale "spiral fracture," a twisting, lightning-shaped bone break caused by extreme twisting of a spindly arm. But having invoked the memory of such things. Belisle gets a measure of relief by correcting...
When the Senator walked into the hearing room last week, he was outraged to find that Wertheimer had prepared a 54-page report describing each suspected violation, and had given copies to reporters but not to Brooke's lawyers...
...second-floor library with its old books, dark red walls and white trim, the men in the diplomatic delegations take their coats off and settle elbow to elbow at a small round table. They are mindful that Andrew Jackson and later Abraham Lincoln used to sit in that room and debate American affairs with their hosts...
...WilHam Tecumseh Sherman, the man who later marched to the sea, was married there in 1850. One day in 1861 at breakfast, Navy Captain David Glasgow Farragut ("Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead!") was told he was to command the Union attack against New Orleans. And in a front room Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies, a melancholy prelude to many visits by the anguished Lincoln, who used to prowl the area...