Word: dial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soaked up by the ocean, that Pauling's estimate of the increase of carbon 14 in the atmosphere was 50 times too high. Pauling's figure: 10%; the Columbia figure: .2%. And the remaining radiation "would be considerably less than that received from the luminous-dial wristwatch worn for about two hours a year." Added they: "Exaggerated statements by respected scientists only add to the public's confusion...
Dear Child. In Alexandria, Va., Lisa Norling, 2, playing with a telephone dial, accidentally made a connection, held an animated conversation with the man on the other end until her father took the phone, learned that his daughter had direct-dialed a number in Sacramento. Calif...
Hallmark Hall of Fame: In a faultless presentation of the modern crime classic Dial M for Murder, Actor Maurice Evans again showed the British capacity for making the gentle art of homicide good clean fun. Once again, in a role he played on Broadway for some 500 performances, Evans decided that he preferred his wife's money to his wife (Rosemary Harris), then saw his plans go agley in a monstrous inversion of his custom-built plot. Brilliantly adapted for TV by its playwright, Frederick Knott, Dial M was a marvel of mobility, leaped from pub to club...
...Dial M for Methodism. In Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Robert Poston dialed a telephone number, heard a man's voice pleading for help, called police, who dialed the same number, got the "Dial-a-Prayer" service of the Catalina Methodist Church...
...thought Carroll was an M.D., he is actually a licensed drugless-healer -a "sanipractor." At his first examination (fee, $50), Carroll took a drop of blood from Doris Hull's ear, put it in his "radionic" device, twirled some knobs, concluded that he got a vibration at a dial reading of 42. To him, this indicated some form of tuberculosis...