Word: dials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrived so garbled as to be unintelligible. One Teletype machine actually developed a lisp. Clarifications were quickly sent out, prompting Boston Correspondent Ruth Galvin to reply: "Re clarification of clarification: don't apologize. The project is taking a little time because I can't get a dial tone on my telephone, one source is unavailable because his lines are down, and another is tied up with a faulty furnace." After an on-schedule, trouble-free flight into Detroit, another correspondent was imprisoned aboard for 45 minutes because someone forgot to move an exit tunnel to the plane...
...shows, four are youth-oriented. The Young Rebels, a one-hour drama set in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, focuses on three young members of a Yankee guerrilla band. The Young Lawyers deals with law students and a legal-aid society. In Dial Hot Line. Psychiatrist Vince Edwards (Dr. Ben Casey) runs a telephone service set up by a metropolitan hospital to deal with troubled teens who have no one else to talk to. The Partridge Family is a situation-comedy series dealing with a rock group headed by the mother of the family (shades of The Cowsills...
...After reading your article "Dial 686-2377 for NUMBERS" [Feb. 2], I will inform you that you can reach me at work by dialing GAY ANTS, and that you can reach me at home by dialing HAM SALT. My landlord can be reached by dialing I ADVISE. And don't forget that granddaddy of all telephone names: New York City's getting the time of day by dialing NERVOUS...
Dedicated Telephoneticist. There is, of course, a margin of error connected with the game, specifically in the possible confusion between 1's and 7's, O's and O's. Dialing a wrong telephone name may also bring on an operator asking: "What number did you dial, please?" Instead of trying to explain, it is usually far easier to hang up and call again. None of this deters a dedicated telephoneticist like Los Angeles Mathematician Angela Dunn, who has created words out of most of her friends' numbers. A pharmacist and his wife for whom...
...game carry it one step further. Author Don Mankiewicz, for example, played it the easy way for years with I DECIDE for an office number, UP STICK for home. But he changed offices last fall, and today acquaintances who want to get in touch with him are told to dial the answer to the question "What do you use to blast your way through the ice, Amundsen?" Those still interested in making the call can reach him at TNT BYRD...