Dove called the other Coördinators over and said, Larry, your little pal has just Requested his Paperwork.
The top brass has just requested the removal of the "permanent mental disorder" label that usually bars transsexuals and transvestites from being conscripted.
As the rapper rocks on, Cohen shifts his weight: holding his hip, leaning against the board, leaning on a chair, glancing over his shoulder toward the crowd behind him to take in the sea of phone lights that Thug has just requested.
As a way of starting conversations, the guy would ask if something he had just requested was finished yet.
"You know," he advises the photographer who has just requested he smile, "a photographer in London once told me to say Lesbian," and as he completes the sentence, he segues into a grin, a trick that apparently works only if your accent or your armature is of British manufacture.
And while other people might write expressing views on the Iraq war or the economy, Dr. Toepel will have just one request: A campaign button, maybe a bumper sticker, even a pencil with the candidate's name.
I have just one request, though.
The Wetzels have just one request for those who join the fundraiser: that they email the foundation declaring how much money they raised, and for whom.
We have just released a request for proposal for on-the-ground navigators, individuals who come out of the faith community, out of the business community, out of the patient community, out of the hospital community, who will be available to answer questions, walk people through scenarios, hold seminars.
Yet they still have just one, despite requests for emergency transport having jumped from 770 in 2004-05 to 1,221 in 2008-09.
