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deskman

[desk-man, -muhn] / ˈdɛskˌmæn, -mən /


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The mirage blinded a CBS Washington deskman named James E. Roper one evening a fortnight ago, as he scanned the script turned in by Sevareid for his nightly five-minute analysis on the radio network.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The deskman instructed the Coast Guard not to entice the sailor, but under any circumstances to "keep me apprised" of what happens next.

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 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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