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deskman

[desk-man, -muhn] / ˈdɛskˌmæn, -mən /


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The Toronto Globe & Mail fired him after three weeks as a deskman.

From Time Magazine Archive

In comparison to Voight's unswerving dedication, Beatty's mania seems just about as workaday as a deskman collecting box scores from the local high schools.

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

His other positions on the magazine included bureau chief in Ottawa, deskman in New York and Deputy Chief of the Time-Life News Service.

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Once so shorthanded that columnists had to wind computer tape and deskmen had to help set type, the staff now works almost normal shifts.

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

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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