Word: dial
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...service is a byproduct of A T & T's recent Government-mandated breakup: the deregulators ordered local telephone companies to give up their monopoly on their sponsored Dial-It services (time, weather, Dial-A-Joke and so on). High Society was one of 21 enterprises picked by lottery to get a piece of the New York Telephone action, and has since bought two more of the numbers from other lottery winners...
...became a matter of smothering the goddess of the moment with an incestuous sort of fatherly attention, and of laboring to control every detail of her life. He raged when he was deserted, as he saw it, by Ingrid Bergman after Spellbound and Notorious and by Grace Kelly after Dial "M" for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. By 1962, when he filmed The Birds, he was treating Actress Tippi Hedren as a doll to dress, cosset and terrorize...
...Dial M. for McClure...
Boston 6, Buffalo 2 (Series in dial...
When Claire Grenewald, a Summit, N.J., high school sophomore, made a habit of staying out late with her steady boyfriend, her parents bought her a beeper. Whenever she is 15 minutes past her 11:30 p.m. curfew, her parents dial a telephone number that causes a tiny electronic device stashed in her purse to beep, reminding her that it is time to go home. The elder Grenewalds also take the beeper along on their frequent trips to New York City. Says Susan Grenewald: "The kids can just buzz us if anything important happens. It means...