I love you so much!" An aide cleared his throat and Ms. Khakamada stood up abruptly behind her desk.
It was hard not to notice the tensions at ABC News, where the war began last Wednesday without Peter Jennings at his desk and his newscast ended so abruptly that many affiliates scrambled or went dark.
Hanging out with Mohammed at his office in Gaza City six months ago, mostly just watching him smoke one cigarette after another, he abruptly leant over his desk and said to me: "Everyone is dead.
But when the conversation shifted to his family, and then specifically to his 40-year-old daughter, Clare, he rose abruptly and moved away, putting his solid senatorial desk between us.
Abruptly, he put his pen beside the notebook on his desk and reached to quiet the music coming from the oldies station on his clock radio.
She abruptly shoves the baggie back into the envelope and slams the desk drawer shut.
bowls of crisps, a pack of rice crackers stolen from someone's desk cubby, one crate of Fosters, three half-bottles of acidic leftover wine from birthday celebrations that abruptly ended and they got put in the fridge.
When Chen Wei and Zhai Yao were abruptly fired last year from jobs at a hip, glossy magazine, they could have quietly packed their desks and left -- it would have been the traditional Chinese response to an embarrassing situation.
Abruptly, the overhead lights came back on, the disco ball stopped turning, and the collectors returned to their desks.
Then he abruptly gets up from the meeting table, turns away from me without a goodbye handshake, and goes back to his desk and computer.
