Gross was behind a clean-top desk, only a manila folder before him.

he made fresh coffee and searched through all the desk drawers for more cigarettes before thinking of her handbag, and found a crumpled stray cigarette at its bottom, which tasted peculiarly of face powder.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

He sat down before Eddie's desk.

Being stubborn and not wanting to return to the typewriter so early, I hastily looked around for a door to a lecture hall where I could sneak some listening time and get a line on current research, and be out of sight before the desk was reoccupied by the guardian of the gate.

On the fourth floor, he set up an X-shaped trading desk — designed to maximize his contact with traders and salesmen — from which he worked very long hours, invariably starting his day before 5 am Pacific ( 8 am Eastern, prior to the opening of the markets in New York ).

She entered to find Thalberg sitting at his desk before a tray of diamond engagement rings.

" The usual format consisted of many sketches between the two, an ongoing filmed serial, a solo character sketch from Barker, Corbett's monologue, a musical number, a special guest, bookended by joke news items, delivered from a desk by the two in the style of newsreaders, before ending with the catchphrase " It's good night from me-and it's good night from him.

Examples are throwing his blue note cards through the prop window behind him or throwing pencils at the camera ( always followed with a sound effect of shattering glass ), slapping the camera, pausing to take a long drink of his coffee, exaggeratedly loud coughing and clearing his throat, showing the inside lining of his suit, showing his receding hairline, long awkward moments to organize his note cards on his desk, flipping pencils upward and trying to catch them one-handed ( à la Johnny Carson ), wiggling his tie, adjusting the height of his chair, stirring his guests ' coffee with a pencil before they arrive, and pausing to clean his glasses.

Back at her desk, she is mortified about the night before but Jack comes in and says they are happy with Tess's idea.

In 1964 he joined The New York Times and worked the city desk for a while before returning to the Far East, first to Indonesia and then to spend another year in Vietnam.

Nealon had a three-year stint at the Update desk before requesting his departure, as he felt his time behind the desk was drawing away from other acting opportunities on the show.

" The morning after President Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, she went into the Senate chamber before it convened and laid a rose on the desk Kennedy had occupied as a Senator.

Any Visitors must leave their ID card at the front desk, and must be out of the dorm before 2 a. m.

Robinson could make Senators and everyone in his presence quake by the burning fire of his eyes, the baring of his teeth as he ground out the words, and the clenching of his mighty fists as he beat on the desk before him.

For example, Redrum's main outputs could be connected to a single channel of the mixing desk, or instead each of its drum sounds could be routed to a separate EQ before sending them to separate channels in the mixer, or rather than audio output the channels of the ReDrum could be used to trigger the gates of an Alligator via CV.

During the Second World War, Partridge served in the Army Education Corps, later transferring to the RAF's correspondence department, before returning to his British Museum desk in 1945.

Thus, like the Wooton desk, the fall front desk and others with a hinged desktop, and unlike closable desks with an unmovable desktop like the rolltop desk or the cylinder desk all documents and various items must be removed from the work surface before closing up.

Ciardi taught briefly at the University of Kansas City before joining the United States Army Air Forces in 1942, becoming a gunner on B-29s and flying some twenty missions over Japan before being transferred to desk duty in 1945.

He left a note propped on the desk asking her to call him sometime today, and drove home.

During a 1995 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore climbed onto David Letterman's desk and bared her breasts to him, her back to the camera, in celebration of his birthday.

Upon graduating, Roosevelt underwent a physical examination, and his doctor advised him that because of serious heart problems, he should find a desk job and avoid strenuous activity.

During the robbery, a traffic cop, Hale Keith, was severely wounded when Nelson spotted him, jumped onto a teller's desk, and gunned Keith down through a plate glass window.

During his time in Gannan, from 1940 he implemented a " public information desk " where ordinary people could visit him if they had problems, and according to records, Chiang Ching-kuo received a total of 1, 023 people during such sessions in 1942.

According to Kramer, he and Rose intentionally structured the film to debunk ethnic stereotypes ; the young doctor, a typical role for the young Sidney Poitier, was purposely created idealistically perfect, so that the only possible objection to his marrying Joanna would be his race, or the fact she had only known him for ten days: the character has thus graduated from a top school, begun innovative medical initiatives in Africa, refused to have premarital sex with his fiancée despite her willingness, and leaves money in an open container on his future father-in-law's desk in payment for a long distance phone call he has made.

She discovers Jameson's pistol lying on his desk, and impulsively shoots him.

The discussion leads to an argument ... Caswell attacks the Professor, hitting him on the head with a desk lamp.

There is a statue of him ( leaning over his desk ) by James Walter Butler ( bronze, 18 September 1998 ) located in the canal basin by Leicester Row, Coventry, and another by Colin Melbourne ( bronze, 20 July 1990 ) in Lower Bedford Street, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, at the junction of the Trent and Mersey Canal with the Caldon Canal, opposite Etruria Industrial Museum.

After focus has occurred the LD usually sits at a temporary desk ( tech table ) in the theater ( typically on the Center Line in the middle of the house ) where he or she has a good view of the stage and work with the lighting board operator / programmer, who will either be seated alongside him or her at a portable control console or talk via headset to the control room.

When he was done, the lawyers gave him desk space and allowed him to study law in their library to prepare for the bar.

The late Karl Haas told a story ( supposedly true ) about a violinist in an orchestra having a confectioner make him a mute entirely from candy, so that he could surprise his desk partner by eating the mute after finishing with it.

He keeps a baseball on the desk in his office ( given to him by an alien impersonating Buck Bokai, Sisko's favorite historical baseball player ) halfway through the first season ), and often picks it up and tosses it around when deep in thought.

He has a robotic desk that forces him to do his paperwork.

She'd forward questions to him ; he'd answer them to the original querent and copy her on the reply ; then, she'd gather up all of those, and include them in the monthly help desk column.

A desk made for Robichaud by the Saint John Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company and given to him in 1966, which he used during his last years as premier and which was used by his successor Richard Hatfield was returned to the Premier's Office by Shawn Graham in 2006.

While he was praying in St Michael's Kirk at Linlithgow, a man strangely dressed in blue had approached his desk saying his mother had told him to say James should not to go to war or take the advice of women.

He left King Tubby's studio at the end of the 1970s and became the principal engineer for Channel One Studio when hired by the Hoo Kim brothers, giving him the chance to work on a 16-track mixing desk rather than the four tracks at Tubby's.

" He praised the surface of the building, and the detailing of the terra-cotta work, but criticized the practicality of the large number of windows in the building: " tenant can, perhaps, find wall space within for one roll top desk without overlapping the windows, with light close in front of him and close behind him and close on one side of him.

Twenty minutes later she was at the desk of the Grafin's pension, her tears dried, signing a hotel form and asking for a bath.

Hamilton was bent over his desk, drafting a legal paper by the light of a candle.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

On his desk was a slowly accumulating treatment and script of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

There was a significantly greater number in this group who reported a desk as being in a tilted position while a tennis ball resting on it remained stationary on the incline.

It was evident that a captain should remain at his desk, directing with a firm hand and keeping a firm seat.

Then one day, early in January, 1960, I sat down at my desk, and suddenly I was aware of the crucifix.

It contained approximately 1 mile ( 1. 6 km ) of wire, 280 dual-triode vacuum tubes, 31 thyratrons, and was about the size of a desk.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

* French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

It did not use electronic logic but was based on relay technology, and was built into a desk.

More at ease, the Emperor went to his desk to sign some decrees, where he was suddenly approached by Stephanus:

The BIOT administration was moved to Seychelles following the independence of Mauritius in 1968 until the independence of Seychelles in 1976, and to a desk in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London since.

The only relief he could get was in his bath over which he improvised a desk to write his list of suspect counter-revolutionaries who were to be quickly tried and, if convicted, guillotined.

There was a time when I became so enraged by what I began to feel was his determination to hoodwink me that I found it necessary to place on my desk a notice saying: REMEMBER, IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, HE WAS A GREAT MAN.