Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small but vital concerns of an old woman in a house and a life that for many years had been too empty. In content, it was very little different from the 150 calls a month received by 323-1819, which is the number of a service known as Dial-a-Listener. At the receiving end is a rotating staff of ten volunteers-including the schoolteacher, a nurse, an author, a civil engineer-who keep the number open around the clock. At the other end are the lonely people of Davenport who hunger for the sound of a sympathetic human voice...
Although intended primarily to serve the aged, Dial-a-Listener occasionally gets calls from the young. One eleven-year-old boy, whose parents work, phones nearly every day after school, and sometimes late at night when he can't get to sleep. "I think I'm a homosexual," began another youthful caller. "Where can I get help?" He was referred to a social agency. Crank calls are rare. One high school girl rang up to ask how to divide 182 by 9; her listener, no arithmetician, was stumped...
...Harvard Film Study--"Dial M for Murder" by Alfred Hitchcock, and "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" by Douglas Sirk, Carpenter Center Lecture Hall. Admission...
...HUNGRY GRASS by Richard Power. 288 pages. Dial...
...phone dial: try dialing, particularly the higher numbers, and see if the hole is not best. Why not just make the dials larger with bigger holes...