Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasionally hear a church bell," the visitor said, immediately thinking what an insolent thing that was to say, given these or any other circumstances...
...Bell family of Winnsboro, S.C., had no such luck. Ulese Bell, 52, and his son Ulese Jr. dived under a bed as the funnel approached. But Maude Bell, 48, wanted to see the storm's awful majesty. "She just walked out of the room and into the den to watch the hail fall," says Ulese. "Within three or four seconds, wham! The house just collapsed." Ulese dug his wife of 28 years out of the rubble, but she never regained consciousness...
Although barred from selling computers before the breakup, the company for more than 30 years has been developing and building them for telephone-call switching, billing and other internal needs. In 1947 scientists at A T& T's Bell Laboratories invented the transistor, which laid the foundation for microchips. The company also created the UNIX computer operating system, which has been licensed to more than 2,200 businesses, universities and government agencies in the U.S. and ten other countries since the early...
Those most likely to spread the numbers, says Larry Mixon, the Florida spokesman for Atlanta-based Southern Bell, include college students and military base personnel. Both groups contain large numbers of young people living away from home and making frequent long-distance calls. Once a number is obtained, hundreds of people may end up using it. "Students have been known to take out ads announcing the numbers and the fact that free calls can be made from them," Mixon said. In California stolen numbers bring from $2 to $10 each on the black market...
...years operators seldom asked questions when travelers charged long-distance calls to their home phones. But so many calls were being billed to unwary customers that operators now usually phone a person at the number given to get approval. Says Scott Smith, a spokesman for San Francisco-based Pacific Bell: "Credit cards are becoming the sole source of telephone fraud...