In that pre-Web era, before desk-bound bloggers saturated the opinion market, Mr. Breslin was a familiar archetype — the quintessential sidewalk-pounding, big-city columnist, loved and loathed all over town, a champion of the put-upon and a thorn to the mighty and the swell.
At 8 P.M., the four were taken before the desk sergeant to be booked.
"We are sending you abroad," she said, as I stood before her desk.
She promptly soured, grabbed her bag, left my office and could hardly have been out of the building before my desk phone rang.
Ms. Stasio entered her equally book-filled office and sat before a desk on a red stool that belonged to her grandmother.
Raking light picks out, like flashes of colored fireworks, the polished brass instruments, a pink rose and a woman's afghan draped over a chair before the desk.
They are very conscious of what they want," he says, seated before a desk in the book-lined study of his Athenian home.
As Mr. Combs, Mr. Jones and Mr. Fenderson stood before the desk sergeant, they had to be stopped from talking to one another, several officers testified.
The files cover apparent extra-terrestrial encounters in the two years before the desk was shut down including sightings at several UK landmarks such as Stonehenge.
2 15 -- Eats a bit of Chinese takeout at desk before meeting with Barry Sullivan, superintendent of Gateway National Park in New York and New Jersey.
Mr Page's daughter, Lauren, flirted with a desk job before following her father.
