Word: overhearer
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...citizen and able to operate the equipment properly. Not that the briefcase portable-really a miniaturized car phone-is difficult to use. The user pushes a row of eleven buttons, one after another, until he finds an open channel (on a busy channel, he can overhear the conversation). He then holds down a transmission switch on the hand set and gives the mobile operator his call, which is completed over regular telephone lines. Incoming calls are announced by a buzzer and a light...
...assured him I would mail him a copy of my review, at which point, after looking to make sure no one could possibly overhear, he laid it on the line: "Do you think," he asked plaintively, "you might be able to call it 'camp...
...York never goes entirely to sleep, and on at least one night you should stay up with her. Feel her pulse after the lights go on and remain after they go off again. Hang about a Village coffee house to overhear a cerebral young man intellectualize a girl from the New School into sharing his pad. Take in a wee-hours' movie bill (adults only) at one of the 42nd Street houses between Sixth and Eighth Avenues. Go for a sandwich at Reuben's (6 East 58th St.) and pick up dessert at the all-night vegetable stand east...
Strategists for May and Connecticut House Speaker Anthony Wallace even used short-wave radio to guide their staffs -but sadly discovered that each could overhear the other...
Could you please tell me how a reporter can overhear President Kennedy "whisper" to his wife. "You've got lipstick on your teeth." Now really...