Word: work
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then you say that I returned to Tokyo the next day, as though that were the reason. This is untrue and misleading. As I intended, my remark relaxed the atmosphere and we had a cordial discussion. I returned to Tokyo the next day to fulfill a predetermined schedule of work for my committee...
...course the structure of such law must be patiently built, stone by stone. The cost will be a great deal of hard work, both in and out of government, particularly in the universities of the world...
Mamie had gone to work for Giffels & Vallet back in mid-1928. A few weeks later she slipped away from the office for a couple of hours to appear in court on a charge of embezzlement from a former employer, was put on five years' probation. Her new bosses were blissfully ignorant of her history...
...their in-laws on the office payroll at salaries up to $16,000 a year and how to use up all the room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum. "The conditions under which we work," declared one indignant Labor M.P., "are a public scandal." Last week, at the insistence of Labor's fiery, red-haired Boadicea, Barbara Castle, members of the House of Commons were at long last determined to do something about their own welfare...
...briefcase. But a special loop of pink ribbon hangs beside the locker-dating from the days when Members were required to check their swords outside. If a Member has a secretary (whose salary he pays himself), he applies to the sergeant at arms for a place where she can work. This might turn out to be in one of the palace's three "secretarial rooms," where 40 or more girls are packed in as tight as on the underground during rush hour. At the end of each of these rooms is a row of six or seven telephones that...