Word: workday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to their actual coverage of the campaign, Glasgow and Darby are continually queried by TIME'S editors for the answers to specific questions. On the road, says Glasgow, the correspondent's workday lasts 18 to 20 hours -"no longer than Stevenson's day." But the logistics of the campaign trip prove most wearying...
...hour workday, General Mohammed Naguib, Egypt's reluctant strong man, and his eager-beaver officers gathered around a radio in Abbas-sia barracks. They tuned in to hear their hand-picked Premier, Aly Maher, report to the nation. When the Premier had finished, the officers were disappointed and mad. Why hadn't Aly spelled out his proposed social and economic reforms instead of merely saying that reforms were on the way? The Premier had been long on generalities, short on specifics. His only hard & fast promise was a pledge to lift press censorship. To a country tingling...
Living in a comfortable house in suburban London, he begins a workday at 8 a.m. with three or four cups of tea, ends it with a straight gin before dinner at 7. In between, he sometimes dictates up to 2,200 words, delivers frequent talks over the BBC, only regrets that he can no longer walk more than five miles at a stretch. Whatever shocks he has left to give to the 20th century he is putting into his autobiography, to be published after his death. There are no shockers in his latest book, New Hopes for a Changing World...
Like the professional poet he was, Yeats sat down at 11 each morning to write poetry, but his workday lasted only two hours, and he never finished more than a dozen lines...