Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noise became more & more insistent, began to sound like the busy signal on a dial telephone. Brennke halted, straightened up, took off the headphones to see what was wrong with them-and instantly dived into the roadside ditch. The odd sound was the zing of German bullets going past Brennke's head...
...Return. There was little disruption of service on big city dial systems, but calls through small-town manual switchboards virtually ceased. Everywhere essential calls went through. WLB condemned the walkouts as threats to the war effort, ordered the strikers back to work. But the strikes went...
...GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF HENRY JAMES-edited by Philip Rahv- Dial Press...
...piper?" In his last years he became asthmatic and dropsical, admitted that he was desperately afraid of being "one of those who shall be damned." "What do you mean by damned?" asked his doctor. "Sent to Hell, sir, and punished everlastingly," roared Johnson. He would glance fearfully at the dial of his watch, which bore the Greek inscription: The night cometh, when no man can work. But on his deathbed his deep piety came to the fore. "I will take no more physic, not even my opiates," he said; "for I have prayed that I may render up my soul...
...tiers, the Deweys appeared, in a cream-colored touring car, flanked by eight motorcycle cops. Said the script: "After Governor Dewey enters, Von Zell brings many stars to the microphone to describe the scene during the time the cars are driving around the track. After one minute of cheering, dial the mikes down so that the continued cheering becomes a background for the stars speaking...