Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next room four middle-aged secretaries cut out articles from Communist publications and Hearst newspapers. One of them has a stack of Hearst-writer George Sokolsky's columns in a wooden tray. A few Sokolsky articles, neatly clipped, lie flat on the desk and she reads them carefully...
...talk, gains speed, and skims along by free association. He remembers his Indiana boyhood with a command of imagery so precise that he can spin into the air everything from the smell of an old-fashioned icebox to the guilty excitement of an adolescent boy looking through a stack of Breezy Story Magazines down in a corner of the cellar. When he begins to run out of breath, jazz comes on softly behind his voice, and he continues, accelerating maniacally, until the jazz drowns his voice altogether. The jazz ends abruptly. Shepherd begins again. He is the inspired kinghead...
...While Salinger puffed on cigars, the pair were served vodka and caviar, discussed press relationships and other communication channels between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Inevitably, the meetings gave rise to rumors that Salinger was negotiating about a Kennedy visit to Russia, but Salinger denied it "on a stack of Bibles." One thing that Salinger and Kharlamov did talk about: a possible exchange of TV appearances between Kennedy and Khrushchev-either separately on each other's national screens or on a single TV show in both nations through the use of tape...
Assuming that Molotov was really retaining his post, Western experts had several possible explanations: - He has something on Khrushchev, possibly (as one Vienna newspaper reported) a stack of documents, safely deposited in the West, detailing Khrushchev's own complicity in Stalin's actions. >There is a strong Stalinist faction in the Kremlin that is protecting Molotov. >Khrushchev is merely being shrewd enough to show magnanimity toward an aging foe, while at the same time avoiding a potentially embarrassing debate over his own political past...
...open 7 a.m.-1 a.m. Monday - Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 a.m. Sunday, all year round. This would make the facility available 74% of the time and practically any time a person would want to use it. The cost this would entail is by no means staggering. Widener (reference/reading room, stacks and circulation) could function adequately with a staff of four during these extra hours: one person at the Mass. Av. entrance (the main entrance would be closed); one at the reference desk; one at the stack entrance, who would also check out books (temporary stack passes would be issued freely...