Word: beep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more people and the weather wasn't so bad, we'd send an escort pair out walking," says VanDyke. "If a call came in, we would give them a beep and they'd call us back...
...Beep. "Mom, Dad," says a 19-year-old, "I'm sorry, but I'm gay. And I will never, never change." Beep. "I just want to say I'm sorry," sobs a young woman, who says she caused an automobile accident that killed five people. "I wish I could bring them back." Beep. "I wish I had someone to share this with," murmurs a man, revealing the secret pleasure he gets from wearing his wife's clothing...
...newspaper story when the invisible intruder struck. Joselow, a financial reporter at the Providence Journal-Bulletin, had carefully slipped a disk holding six months' worth of notes and interviews into one of the newsroom computers when the machine's familiar whir was pierced by a sharp, high-pitched beep. Each time she tried to call a file to the screen, the warning DISK ERROR flashed instead. It was as if the contents of her floppy disk had vanished. "I got that sinking feeling," recalls Joselow. "Every writing project of mine was on that disk...
Late at night . . . a sudden beep, a burst of light and a taunting message on the screen: GOTCHA ! Forty years after the dawn of the computer era, machines across the U. S. are being infected by a new contagion -- small but deadly programs that disrupt operations, destroy data and raise disturbing questions about the vulnerability of information systems everywhere. See TECHNOLOGY...
Julian Rios, 17, of Miami, feels much the same way, having been embraced by all five of the top colleges he applied to. Two weeks ago, a "go Eli" call from a Yale alumnus was interrupted by a beep signaling a competing exhortation from Brown. Soon after, Brown asked Rios to join other acceptees on a chartered Amtrak train ride to the school, where a whirl of receptions awaited, as did a brass band...