Though he knew no more about military science and tactics than any other desk officer, he managed to get transferred to the combat forces.

A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.

After dropping his full enema bag on the desk of the clinic ’ s commanding officer, he walked out.

He worked for the Conservative Party from 1966, first as desk officer and then director ( from 1974 to 1979 ) of the Conservative Research Department.

After arriving at the draft board, Donald greets an officer seated at a desk, presents his paper, and expresses his desire to join the Army Air Forces, adding excitedly " I came from a family of aviators!

Bacon succeeded Lionel Rosenblatt, a former US State Department desk officer for Asia.

This poem was printed, framed and fixed to the wall in front of the study desk in the officer cadets cabins at the National Defence Academy ( NDA ) at Pune India.

Not only was Allen Dulles affected by the tunnel raid, but also his brother John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, and his sister Eleanor Lansing Dulles, the State Department's desk officer for Berlin.

The campaign desk was usually the private property of the officer, as was his uniform and other military implements.

The U. S. Government re-establishes the SAC airbase chain-of-command, but the suicidal general who launched the attack — the only man knowing the recall code — kills himself before capture and interrogation ; however, his executive officer correctly deduces the recall code from among the general's desk pad doodles.

Working behind the desk at the police precinct, Vicki Taylor ( April Clough ) was a female officer who usually spent time dodging pick-up comments from Vince Romano.

On August 29, 1971, three armed men murdered 51-year old San Francisco police sergeant John Victor Young while he was working at a desk in his police station, which was almost empty at the time due to a bombing attack on a bank that took place earlier-only one other officer and a civilian clerk were there.

Intelligence is usually collected from a variety of sources by field officers and deputy field officers ; it is either preprocessed by a senior field officer or by a desk officer.

The desk officer then passes the information to the Joint Secretary and then on to the Additional Secretary and from there it is disseminated to the concerned end user.

After several months of desk duty ashore in Hawaii and recuperation from a broken arm he suffered in the attack on his cruiser, he is promoted to Rear Admiral and given a crucial mission early in 1943 requiring the same sort of guts and gallantry he previously displayed as commanding officer of his cruiser.

Although the reason was not specified Brown looked at the papers on the desk of the senior officer which stated " This man is a Mormon.

From 1959 to 1961, he was Iraq-Jordan desk officer, then Officer in Charge for Cyprus, in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs at the State Department.

She is a retired U. S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency.

From 1960 to 1964, he was Iraq-Jordan desk officer, then officer in charge of Arabian Peninsula affairs, at the State Department.

He was appointed political officer at the U. S. embassy in Islamabad ( 1979 – 81 ) and returned to the State Department where he was desk officer for Syria ( 1981 ) and Lebanon ( 1982-3 ).

Solon's DIMIA case file was not stored with the normal case files, and was instead found separately, in the desk of one of officer ' A's subordinates.

After the Second World War, factories were retrofitted to produce Bakelite using a more efficient extrusion process which increased production and enabled the uses of Bakelite to extend into other genres: jewelry boxes, desk sets, clocks, radios, game pieces like chessmen, poker chips, billiard balls and Mah Jong sets.

As the incoming phone calls are random in nature, help desk agent schedules are often maintained using an Erlang C calculation.

* Reference – Staffs a reference desk answering questions from users ( using structured reference interviews ), instructing users, and developing library programming.

These enable librarians to find such information quickly without leaving the desk — even faster than they could look it up in a reference book or using the Internet.

They suggested the idea of using a coconut which was later kept on the desk of the president to write a rescue message for delivery.

Trackball users also often state that they are not limited to using the device on a flat desk surface.

A team of rescue elves called the ELFS ( Effective Liberating Flight Squad ) free Scott from jail by tying up the front desk guard and using tinsel to break through the bars ( which Scott is very impressed by ).

This misbehaviour can be rectified by restoring proper grounding, either by touching a metallic part of the computer with the other hand, touching the ( insulated ) power supply with some part of the body, or using the computer on the lap instead of on a desk.

To evade the surveillance of the detention facility, she wrote part of the novel on toilet paper using washbasin as a desk.

A desk is a piece of furniture and a type of table often used in a school or office setting for reading or writing on or using a computer.

Finally, after going through Piers ' desk, he discovers that all of the buildings that Piers has recently declared worthy of historic preservation are actually strip clubs and brothels secretly owned by Sir Greville, who has been using Piers to scam the Government out of grant money.

Since the late 1990s, some carrel desk designs provide AC power and Ethernet receptacles for students using laptop computers.

In February 2010, Olivia Judson wrote a post in the Opinionator ( an online commentary section of the New York Times ) about the benefits of using a standing desk.

Along with the rest of ITV News, the channel was presented from the so-called ' theatre of news ' set, a large virtual studio allowing presentation either from behind a desk or by presenters walking around, using the news wall to explain a story with the aid of graphics.

The Japanese seven segment VFD meant that no patent royalties needed to be paid on desk calculator displays as would have been the case using Nixies or Planaplex neon digits.

The SHAPE head of security, Colonel Schreiber, was designed to be the antithesis of Bond, with greying hair, the air of a bank manager, desk with silver framed photographs of his family and a single white rose ; the description shows Fleming using colour to show Schreiber's lack of colour and personality.

These pranks included popping out of her desk drawer as a jack-in-the-box, pretending to shred her school essay, disguising himself as Claire Brewster who would be staying with her while her parents were on a six month holiday and using a sock puppet and a lamp to create the illusion of a Sandworm.

In 1983, Peterborough was equipped with its own studio, using a 12-channel Audix mixing desk made in the county and two Studer B67 tape machines, with a third machine for editing in a neighbouring office.

The last models would use a 1-chip processor and fit under a desk using a console rather than front panel.

In a sense the Spanish Bargueno ( or Vargueno ) desk is a distant cousin of the two piece version, since the Bargueno is also made up of a portable desk and a stand constructed specially for it, using the same materials and style.

While used mainly in men's wristwatches, they also manufactured a number of different desk clocks using the 214 movement.

On the day of the attacks, Suqami checked in at the flight desk using his Saudi passport, and boarded American Airlines Flight 11.

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