Word: dial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pronouncement on the day's weather. Actually, it has become kind of a ritual. The alarm goes off. I ecstatically leap--okay, so I blurrily stumble--from my bed and head straight for the phone. After doing my sun dance and propitiating the various rain deities, I slowly dial the prophetic seven numbers: 936-1111. This, of course, is not easy with all ten fingers crossed and a rabbit's foot in my hand, but I manage...
...your socks and sintillate"; "Tending a cemetery is a grave responsibility." "It Midas well be spring," says a man fixing his car muffler. The book's conspicuous title can have a number of meanings, all socially redeemed because the line is Shakespeare's ("The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon," Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 4). But there are no star-crossed lovers, only heavenly bodies tumbling from orbit to bounce in the bed of Eddie Teeters, a producer and sometime actor in pornographic videocassettes piously merchandised as sex-education films...
...ABOUT AT&T SERVICE." AT&T does have more operators than the other firms, which generally do not provide the operator service necessary for collect and person-to-person calls. Under the Equal Access regulations, however, it will be possible to reach AT&T (and all other carriers) by dialing a five-digit number even if you choose a rival firm as your primary (dial 1) carrier. Romano confirmed that which ever long distance company you choose, "there will always be an AT&T operator available" if you need...
After a few moments, the good news came over the line: "The University of Minnesota has a possible recipient. Please dial the following number...
...automatic typewriter that will print out any of 10,000 spoken words. That development will come none too soon for James Ickes, 33, of Redondo Beach, Calif., who was paralyzed from the neck down in a football accident 14 years ago. Now he can use a voiceactivated computer to dial his telephone, operate a ham radio and compose his mail. He has even started writing his autobiography, dictating it one letter at a time. Cumbersome as this procedure is, Ickes has no complaints. "Previously, I vegetated," he says. "Now I have goals that keep me busy...