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Word: phoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look, I'm going to tell you this for your own good.' You can't do that with Ike any more. He gets irritated." Godfrey also revealed that even his longtime friendship with ex-Defense Boss Charlie Wilson had deteriorated to just "polite phone calls on birthdays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Glass Curtain | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...pushing defense strategist said that he had found a willing listener. It was after he flew to Texas and talked with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, he explained, that Congress appropriated an extra billion dollars for the Air Force. Said Arthur: "The day Congress acted, Johnson phoned me and said, 'Arthur, this is a billion-dollar phone call, and now you stay out of Texas. You've cost the taxpayers a billion dollars.' I told him, 'It will cost $4 billion a year to run this right, so you've done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Glass Curtain | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...prowler escaped from Coggleshall House at Radcliffe at 1:30 a.m. yesterday morning, after Nina Dimmett '58, whose room he had entered, awoke and summoned police on her phone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girl Sees Prowler Enter Her Bedroom | 11/15/1957 | See Source »

...away privileges such as attendance at palace movies, sometimes administered deserved slaps to the royal bottoms. Like her brothers and sisters, Aisha was haughty, impish and possessed with enormous-if sometimes disoriented-drive and energy. The children used to drive their father's councilors to distraction on the phone, imperiously summoning them to listen to their latest phonograph records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOSLEM WORLD: Beyond the Veil | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Rogers' rising importance has never impressed his youngest child Doug, 11. One day Nixon called, and the boy answered the phone. In a little while the President himself called, and Doug again answered. Said Rogers later: "I want you to remember this occasion because it will mean a lot to you some day." Asked Doug: "Did you ever meet Mickey Mantle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Young Man in the Cabinet | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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