desk officer

As a desk officer, this was his first real experience of the war.

When you're the desk officer, you do not know everything that's going on in the street.

There are 15 political desk officers looking after 16 operations.

His manners did not allow anger on the part of the desk officer.

We might ask desk officers to make an initial selection of important records as they come off the live system.

The desk officer listened for a few moments and then hung up.

He turned the cash over to the desk officer, and the shower of praise began.

Desk officers don't get killed in action - or even wounded.

He stepped back into the waiting room, tapped the desk officer on the shoulder and asked which way.

The desk officer turned when he heard the footsteps.

I came in under my own steam but the desk officer might know I've been arrested."

She glanced at the desk officer, who hurriedly placed a call.

After a moment, the desk officer began speaking rapid-fire Spanish into the phone.

Try to get out," the police desk officer said.

They were desk officers for various areas of the world and other specialists of one kind or another.

The informants left their names with the desk officer.

Not if he were a desk officer who'd never had to look into someone's eyes while he pulled the trigger.

He then returned as desk officer for Arabian peninsula affairs from 1965 to 1967.

Official and unofficial estimates suggest that civilians could take over some 1,500 desk officers' jobs.

In particular, she has promised that there is going to be a human rights desk officer in every external office.

He touched her elbow, steering her toward the desk officer.

"If he calls in or you finally reach him at home, give him this address," I told the patient desk officer.

Lee Child has a cameo role as the property desk officer in the police station after an arrest.

Unable to get a bored desk officer at the West Side station to tell me where he was.

"Well, the desk officer is still the President."