Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said before, I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy duddy who'd rather walk than take a motor car or who'd rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve...
When he learned of Cartagena's detention, Vellucci contacted government officials in El Salvador and the U.S. and placed a direct phone call to the Archbishop of El Salvador to express his concern...
When I pick up the receiver in order to make a call and I hear a conversation already going on, I am unable to suppress an instinctive urge to blurt out "Oops, sorry." I fully realize that my roommates are likely to mistake that utterance for the call-waiting tone and that I therefore frequently cause them to accidentally hang up on their friends. I can't help it, though...
...should not imply that I possess a monopoly on phone-awkardness in my suite. My roommates have also created a problem or two for me, getting on the line in the middle of a call. My conversations are thus regularly punctuated by clicks and clacks of all sorts...
These friends of mine have nothing in particular to hide from the bureaus and agencies of our federal government. Nonetheless, the thought that Big Brother just might be listening in on our talks has made them nervous enough not to call me anymore...