deskman
Example Sentences
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But in small round-table sessions everywhere he went, wavy-haired L�pez Mateos, a deskman by training, has lined up the loyalty of political leaders who count.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any deskman in the top-ranking E Ring of the Pentagon knows that a new Secretary should appear tongue-tied by military terminology, respectful of military uniform, and humble at the talk of potential military destruction.
From Time Magazine Archive
The State Department deskman had no one to call but a Pentagon deskman�who apparently did not realize the cable's contents warranted bothering a higher-up.
From Time Magazine Archive
Author Newcomb, then a Pacific war correspondent, now a Manhattan deskman for the A.P., has doggedly sleuthed the inside story by talking to survivors and Navy brass.
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 Raleigh, Henry
