Word: dial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women go out to work, implied that the "mess" clearly visible in other democratic countries was "partly due" to women's suffrage. They did not get too excited, knowing that the male votes alone would decide the issue. Half an hour after the polls closed, the Swiss could dial 168 on their efficient "telephone system and learn that women's suffrage had been defeated by a two-to-one vote...
Alarm Wristwatch. The only U.S.-made alarm wristwatch was put on sale by General Time Corp.'s Westclox. Shock resistant, with luminous dial and hands, it is considerably cheaper than foreign-made models. Price...
These boudoir details appeared last week in London's lip-smacking Sunday Pictorial under the byline of William Charles Ellis, 51, boss of a pub in Hertfordshire called the Plough and Dial but, until last November superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. His chatter was the latest in a series of tattle tales about royal family life to appear in London's popular press, ranging from the governess' gabble of the 1950 The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford, to the more recent manly sacrifices of Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret's boy friend...
...last week it was evident that the Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, had had enough. A government official stalked into the Plough and Dial, handed Pubkeeper Ellis a royal injunction restraining him from publishing any further details about the royal family. The injunction pointed out that Ellis, on resigning, had allegedly given his word in writing-now required of all palace employees-that he would not publish any account of any incident or conversation that had come within his knowledge as a result of his royal employment...
...Mood for Love and I Only Have Eyes for You will bump the pulse, the album guarantees, "of any red-blooded American man." Toni's signature song (Call Toni) sets the pitch: "I'm all yours and ready to do/ Anything you want me to/ Just dial TONI oh-five-six-eight-three...