Word: interrupter
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...apocalyptic backdrop, it substitutes more modest effects like the raising of the dead. This is a wonder that Bright is convinced that God ("He hasn't changed"), continues to bestow among communities of "people who trust and obey him." But not, Bright hopes, to him: since it would interrupt his final reunion with the Lord. He has no idea how much time he has left. He appears not to be concerned. "If I die I'm going to heaven. If I don't die, I go on serving the Lord," says Bill Bright, from the pink couch. "I'm happy...
CHICAGO—I stood waiting while the man behind the desk talked on the phone, typing furiously. The emerging pages seemed blank, however, and his eyes were aimed at the wall in front of him. I wondered if he knew I was there, not wanting to interrupt...
...CALL US; WE?LL CALL YOU: "They?re the canker sore on the lip of humanity," says the publisher. "They interrupt dinners, down time, and always call at the wrong time." Of course, the "they" in question is telephone solicitors. In October, Warner will publish a paperback original, "Fun with Phone Solicitors: 50 Ways to Get Even!" by Robert Harris. The author offers such techniques as: The Telephone Ruse: Pretend to transfer your tormentor and then press several buttons on your phone The Verbatim Variation: Repeat everything the caller says in a sing-song voice The Drop-the-Phone Drill...
...switching. Snowe placed a frantic call to White House chief of staff Andrew Card, but Card had already gone home. Snowe left a message saying the matter was "sensitive and urgent." She tried Card again in the morning, but his aides said he wouldn't be available until noon. Interrupt him now, Snowe demanded, "even if he's in with the President." Card phoned back minutes later, and the White House finally knew...
...talking about people in the air or in the airports, and not about the vastly greater numbers on the ground who are brutalized as the planes pass overhead. The solution to squalid air travel that experts propose is analogous to the fix (turn up the volume) when loud planes interrupt your television watching. All will be well if you build more runways, more airports, if you schedule more flights, and fling more profit-making, noise-making metal into...