Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technical difficulties alone were ominous. Since German-speaking defendants were to be tried by English, French and Russian-speaking judges, a battery of interpreters would simultaneously translate every word into the three other languages. Each person in court would get a pair of earphones and a dial with which he could tune in on any desired language. Whenever an interpreter fell behind the proceedings, a yellow light would signal a slowdown. If the interpreter got really snafued, a red light would halt the trial...
...Securities, Ltd., and Dial and Instrument Finishers, Ltd., both of Toronto...
...nervous, high-strung, bedridden woman (Agnes Moorehead), alone in her Manhattan apartment, keeps phoning her husband at his office, gets nothing but a busy signal. She finally persuades the operator to dial the number for her, is cut in on a conversation between two men making plans for murder. Cut off, she calls the police, who listen to her frantic tale with half an ear and hang up. After a good deal of hysterical hocuspocus, she decides that the two men had been hired by her husband to kill...
...oscilloscope" ("scope" for short), radar's screen, which is a cathode-ray tube such as is used in television. The most common type, the "Plan Position Indicator," is a circular dial with an electronic beam like a minute hand, which sweeps around the dial in synchronization with the scanning antenna, painting in its fluorescent wake a picture of what radar sees...
...prevent "promiscuity and perversion" among the demoralized population. Meanwhile Berlin's curb markets operated full blast with many Russian soldiers among the eager purchasers. U.S. soldiers were asking and getting $500 for a $20 wristwatch; $700 for a wristwatch with an impressively loud tick and a luminous dial. For a bar of chocolate they could get a girl...