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deskman

[desk-man, -muhn] / ˈdɛskˌmæn, -mən /


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The only San Francisco paper that did not run the pictures was the Chronicle, whose deskman could not be reached when the agency was peddling the prints.

From Time Magazine Archive

To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years ago, William R. Moore, Associated Press deskman in New York, asked for a transfer to Korea, where he had served with U.S. occupation forces in 1946.

From Time Magazine Archive

His network ruled not only that Roper and Day had been right about the differences, but that Murrow and the Manhattan deskman had been wrong.

From Time Magazine Archive

But new-comers pressed forward and kept trying to convince the deskman that he had rooms somewhere, rooms that he had forgotten, or was saving for people who would never arrive.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

There Alsop, who even then could write rings around veteran deskmen, rose like whipping cream above the city-room pack.

From Time Magazine Archive

The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research wears a gloomy mien that irks Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau.

From Time Magazine Archive

City deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were few good editors,reporters and deskmen, and the laws of natural selection weeded out the unfit amateurs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Derek Almeida —————————————————————————————————————— Derek Almeida, besides being one of Goa's finest and most aesthetically-balanced deskmen, steals time to write humour columns whenever possible.

From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various




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