They have sweeping responsibilities

Usage examples of janitors.

Using Donovan's brainchild, the Random Intervention Surveillance Sweep, which we now keep on every active field operative's home base, the Janitors picked up a phone call to Maroc's apartment at 5:57, local time.

As they walked out of the Circus side by side Smiley wished the janitors good night with unusual terseness, and in the pub in Wardour Street he said 'I've been sacked,' and that was all.

The janitors filled them in and brought them to you twice in your twelve hours' tour of duty: at midnight and again at six a.

Or had he gone off for his lunch leaving it in Registry, waiting to be inspected by one of these new young janitors bursting for promotion?

Smiley had pointed out to Lacon that it would be unwise to meet at his room in Whitehall since it was under constant attack by Circus personnel, whether janitors delivering despatch boxes or Percy Alleline dropping in to discuss Ireland.

He fleshed out another hour teasing the janitors whom he reckoned the idlest lot of so-and-so's in the Circus.

As to the janitors and people like that, as Control put it, Sam should do his damnedest to act natural and look busy.

Three out of the fifteen didn't work and by this time the janitors were really loving him.

The duty harridan from monitoring was waving bulletins at me like flags, a couple of janitors were yelling at me, the radio boy was clutching a bunch of signals, the phones were going, not just my own, but half a dozen of the direct lines on the fourth floor.

But good janitors were like gold dust, and the Brill brothers had been keeping the building spotless and shipshape for nearly two years now.

As the clinic's janitors, it had been a simple matter for Merv and Scant to plant the acid balloons the previous evening.

First Chix, then the strange device on Julius's chest, now pixie janitors who were on leave.

He was a scrawny fellow, bedecked with grease stains and dirt, garbed in the green coveralls which the janitors of the building wore.

It was because he was one of the janitors that he was receiving no attention.

But the RISS could not lie and the Janitors could not make a mistake of that magnitude.