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Word: dialless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...town orders put most long distance calls in the emergency (fire, flood, death) or urgent business category, got cut off occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with a message: "Entered plant O.K. Don't worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Too Bad | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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