Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this gave rise to certain stop-gap measures. Mayor Cavanagh set up a rumor-control service; anyone wishing to check out a story could dial a number for information. A group of businessmen called MUST (Men United for Sane Thought) placed ads in suburban newspapers and on radio and TV, urging their fellow citizens to keep cool and not to buy arms...
TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE by James Baldwin. 484 pages. Dial...
...which they were originally published. The whole of James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in 23 issues of the Little Review (1914-29) over a period of three years. The poems of William Butler Yeats and The Waste Land of T. S. Eliot first appeared in the Dial (1880-1929). For the single year that it survived, transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford in Paris, gave voice to such American expatriates of the 1920s as Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. This Quarter, another European-based review, published the early writings of Aldous Huxley...
...setting recaptures some of the shock and excitement they must have given their first readers. Despite all the plays and movies derived from D. H. Lawrence and the countless exegeses, an early short story, The Woman Who Rode Away, emerges fresh and startling in a 1925 issue of the Dial. The proper American woman living in Mexico with a dreary husband goes off to the hills in search of fulfillment. Instead, she is imprisoned by Indians of such "terrible, glittering purity" that they ignore her womanhood and sacrifice her to their gods so as to win back the land from...
...Governor Dudley kept appointments, But only when Sol saw fit to smile; Under the rainy day's annointments, He wasn't protected by this Dial...