Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still had my hand firmly over the mouthpiece. "You kids get out of here!" I shouted. "Now about the total volume of sales, sir?" I asked the president, as I quickly lifted and replaced my hand over the mouthpiece, hoping that he didn't hear the din of battle in the background. By this time, the kids were not only in the room, they were running between my legs and Barbara was climbing my back to get on my shoulders. I dropped the notebook as I tried to pry her loose...
...Catch a Bookie. While Section 605 has sat lumpishly on the books, serving mainly to bar wiretap evidence in federal courts, wiretapping has flourished. Technology has kept up with demand. Today a good tap sets up so little interference in the line that users do not hear it. A tapper can rig up a tape recorder and leave the scene, returning only once a day to change the tape. Induction apparatus makes it possible to tap a wire without hooking into it or even touching...
...traditional Moslem obligation. Narriman's mother, suing as the ex-Queen's guardian, claimed that Farouk never anted up a piaster of the $28,700 he owed. Meanwhile, Farouk was having mouthpiece trouble: a Cairo court, with Narriman's divorce suit on its docket, refused to hear Farouk's Syrian lawyer, who finally dug up an Egyptian attorney who was willing to plead the porcine playboy's case...
...many as 75 visitors in the adjacent lecture hall. Seated in movie-house chairs, they watch the operation in color on TV repeaters, and see the same charts that the surgeon sees. They plug an electric stethoscope into an outlet in the chair arm. Through this they hear the sound of the patient's heart just as the surgeon does. They also hear whatever the surgeon says to members of his team (picked up by a microphone in his mask) and comments by the leader of the seminar. The surgeon can hear these, too, if he chooses...
June: The Reunion Class of 1929 will hear classmates John Fox '29 and John K. Fairbank '29 debate in New Lecture Hall, and decide not to withhold the class gift after all. President Pusey will get through the degree-awarding exercises without missing a Dean. The dues list will come down from the Dunster House bulletin board. Tom Lehrer adds a 13 ditty to his list of publicly singable songs; and numbers 106 to 186 to his "small party" selections...