"They say a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind," he said.

"It's not just for the sake of having a clean desk," she said.

He sat in his chair behind the clean polished desk and smiled at me.

"I'd know the dream had come true when I started Monday morning with a clean desk."

If this was indeed the last time he would be in his office, he intended to leave a clean desk behind.

You can't miss it - it's the only clean desk on the floor.

He stood up, looked around and nodded toward a clean desk with blue flowers in a green ceramic bowl.

Among former colleagues, he is remembered as a good reporter with an unusually clean desk.

I stood, slowly, and looked at his clean desk.

Right here on my clean borrowed desk while everyone watches.