Word: intercom
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Still, it didn't help much that, as the plane revved up, the intercom played songs like Gloomy Sunday and Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head...
...carrying bulging paper bags got out of a 1975 Mercury Marquis, walked up to a cigarette wholesaler's warehouse in Queens, pushed a bell above the steel door and were admitted. A few minutes later, another man rang the bell. "Whaddaya want?" he was asked over an intercom. "This is Jerry. I came to pick up the order," said the caller. "It's too late. I can't give you the stuff," said the voice, clicking off. The caller made a quick gesture to a building across the street. Out stepped Patrick Vecchio, assistant director...
...Intercom Conspiracy the hero is an editor with a drinking problem and so much alienation that he edits a right-winganti-communist newsletter run by a crazed American general: he falls into a plot by two bored intelligence officers in western Europe to disrupt NATO. The CIA, the KGB and other intelligence services get involved, and Ambler's knowledge of how these organizations operate--the old-boy networks; using journalists as front men--is so extensive that recent revelations about...
...time we hit Route 1 traffic had begun to back up. The bus convoy's game plan went into effect. Working out of the I-formation, but 81 threw a key block, wiping out the left land. Using an intercom system for a huddle the next five buses made their move, sweeping and leaving an array of stalled cars in the wake of their fumes. In a systematic fashion the convoy weaved its way through the opposing traffic; gainers interspersed with long breakdown lane sweeps...
...Boston cooked up a "Caine mutiny" against Black. The friction got so explosive that at one board meeting, when a director called in from a yacht in the Caribbean to vote for a slate of new board members endorsed by Alexander, one of Alexander's opponents ripped the intercom from the wall so that the vote could not be recorded...