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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

There Alsop, who even then could write rings around veteran deskmen, rose like whipping cream above the city-room pack.

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

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

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But the deskmen command a temporary majority: for the short while they shall hold the cards they have the right to call the game.

From Pagan Papers by Grahame, Kenneth