You may find yourself asked to pass along a love letter, caressed by a pretty young thing, temporarily share a table with an actor or watch a shot of vodka slammed down on your table by a drunken soldier.
He tried an air-conditioned place favored by young officers, where he sat at a table by himself smoking Lucky Strikes and drinking Lucky Lager.
Out front there is a brown table covered by a red-checked tablecloth.
ViewSonic plans to sell small, easy-to-use consoles that can fit in the corner of a kitchen, and touch-sensitive tablets that can be left by a bedside or on a coffee table.
The major objective of this joint effort is for UNESCO to provide assistance to its Member States by creating a reference table of country names and abbreviations for countries whose official languages are based on Cyrillic script.
It also holds a work table by an Amish carpenter, a sewing machine and racks of fabrics.
My anxiety was not eased by the presence of steak knives with heavy wooden handles and sharp serrated blades, and a sort of diabolical trolley that was wheeled, steaming, to the table by a stout man with a pencil mustache who with the flourish of a gleaming knife indicated the meat and demanded to know where I wanted it carved.
Hicks -- praised by Republicans as a "whistleblower" -- was joined at the witness table by Eric Nordstrom, a former regional security officer in Libya, and Mark Thompson, the State Department's acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism.
Japanese designers have brought to life a coffee table that becomes a futon plus table and chairs (by Kewb) as well as book shelves that are also jungle gyms (by Koichiro Hoshino).
Despite having Thomas Vermaelen sent off, the Gunners beat the Hammers 2-0 to go top of the table by a point.
The Public Record Office told the BBC it has never held the first page signed by Sir Edward on a table which is now kept in the council chamber in Belfast City Hall.
It gets passed by people sitting down at a table, working out their differences.
This stall was a table covered by a corrugated tin roof at the front of an alley.
Despite the airbrushing the watch's presence was given away by its reflection on a polished table top.
Seth Godin sits at a table surrounded by nine aspiring entrepreneurs.
Balala had been invited by Fifa for a round-table meeting to resolve the differences between the Kenyan government and officials of the Kenya Football Federation (KFF).
Dead center was a long table, surrounded by approximately twenty chairs, and, on the table, empty and half-empty cups, a few books, class logs, and some pamphlets.
They can be moved to another camera or a hard drive by sliding the images across the table -- much as one would slide a picture across a regular table.
He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.
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They were up on a picnic table at that park by the lake, by the edge of the lake, with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank.
As in the rest of Italy, you will save a few euros by standing at the counter, rather than sitting at a table.
Silver illustrates this disconnect with a helpful table, which shows that by keeping the maximum rate at 35% but requiring a minimum 35% tax on all income at a certain threshold, the tax burden is shifted to those earning close to the threshold and away from those earning significantly in excess of the threshold.
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"This was no way to live, " he said, seated at the head of a long table surrounded by his wife and children.
Speaker Boehner appeared conciliatory hours before the President, noting that Republicans were willing to put revenues on a table if accompanied by spending cuts.
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Citigroup is well ahead in the business of attending to institutional clients, but BofA outpaces Citi in retail deposit gathering by a factor of five (see table).
When Figuerido was helping to plan an operation, he slid up to a map table surrounded by Iraqi troops (contractors who play Iraqis, and who never speak English).
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They argue, reasonably enough, that it is wrong to expect unionists to share a cabinet table with Sinn Fein if the republicans are still backed by a private army.
There's a Noguchi coffee table and a collection of chairs with modern lines designed by architects, including Frank Gehry's Power Play chair, which looks like it's made out of wood shavings.
It got me thinking: Why not assemble a stripped-down, tomboy vanity by pairing this mirror with a low-key desk or dressing table a solution that wouldn't flood our bedroom with estrogen?
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