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• n  the police sergeant on duty in a police station

• To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer.
• The State Department deskman had no one to call but a Pentagon deskmanwho apparently did not realize the cable's contents warranted bothering a higher-up.
• The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel to the press plate.

• desk sergeant
• station keeper