Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harassed official at the U.S. Legation in Vienna last week. "It's a direct outside line, but I can't get a single number on it the first time I dial. The second time I invariably get right through. The first dialing serves to alert a monitor. He then sees to it that I get good service while he listens...
...first best-dressed woman, and for years its official sophisticated society dame. In those years, without even trying, she salted down an incredible knowledge of Hollywood's strange ways & means. She can tell off-the-record stories that make Suetonius look like a cub from the Christian Science Monitor. She even knew what the inside of Garbo's dressing room looked like ("the black hole of Calcutta"). Studio publicity men, hard up for a story, always knew where to get it: go out and latch a siphon on to Hopper...
While Standley's first messages were crackling along the Gulf Coast, the hams of STEN (South Texas Emergency Network) were given a red alert, went on the air to monitor the messages along to their destinations. In Washington, FCC hastily authorized STEN to use emergency frequency bands. Amateurs all over the U.S., Bermuda and Puerto Rico stood by to pick up and relay the messages...
...afternoon session of the annual conference, Professor George de Santillana of M.I.T. will conduct a panel on "The Rights of Workers, Farmers, and Peasants." Also slated are panels on "The Rights of Minorities, Races, and Colonials," led by R. H. Markham, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor, and "The Rights of the Individual, and Elevation of the Status of Women and Children," conducted by M. Margaret Ball of the Wellesley College faculty...
...city that prides itself justifiably on its educational facilities, industry, and world trade to be so journalistically warped and barren seems paradoxical. What accurate and adequate coverage manages to penetrate the formidable perimeter must come from the New York papers and the Christian Science Monitor, a sectarian newspaper with a minute 15,900 copies distributed locally...