Word: intercom
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Once, when the Philippine Sea was heading away from Korea for rest and relaxation in Yokosuka, Japan, it was Ramsey's idea to give his crew three extra hours of sleep beyond the normal 0600 reveille. At 0900, a dulcet announcement was piped over the ship's intercom: "Good morning. This is your friendly boatswain's mate. It's oh-nine-hundred and time to turn out. If you are hungry after your long sleep, there are coffee and sweet rolls waiting for you in the galley." Whereupon the ship's Dixieland band crashed into...
...twelfth floor, the farmer found himself in an air-conditioned, semiprivate room (as are all the center's 250 rooms), done in robin's-egg blue, with figured draperies and blond modern furniture. His room had its own bath, outlets for radio and TV sets, and an intercom for talking to the nurses at their stations...
...bombed, right on the yards, and kept on coming down. Then we smelled gasoline in the plane. Somebody said the radar man was putting out a fire that was coming in from the wing. We got ready to jump again. We shut off our power, went on the emergency intercom. I still had faith...
...three drum majors and a walkie-talkie intercom, the Cornell Band will march 100 strong to Soldiers Field this Saturday for the first time since...
...Ready?" asked the pilot, Ensign Harry May, over the intercom...