Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than a week later, Club President Doyle received a phone call from West Springfield, Mass. Charles Helmar, a carpet factory worker and Springfield public links champion, wanted to explain that he had been Roberts' partner in the Deepdale Calcutta. He had used the name Vitali, said Helmar, because Roberts had said that his partner Vitali was sick and the stunt would do no harm. Roberts had offered Helmar $100 for playing along and had never paid. Both of them, said Helmar, were actually three-handicap golfers...
...N.S.A. question on tonight's agenda. Then last Saturday morning at 1 a.m. Council President Albert B. Levin '56 was notified that Einaudi wished to run for the N.S.A. regional post. By 10:00 a.m. Levin had secured the individual consent of enough Council members to phone Einaudi, giving him temporary appointment as an alternate Council delegate--just in time for him to be elected president at Newton...
...Desk Set (by William Marchant) is institutional comedy, dealing with a TV network's research department. The four women in the department-the top one being Shirley Booth-are walking information centers and phone-answering encyclopedias. But elsewhere in the organization, the human brain has been successfully replaced by electronic ones, and soon, menacing the four women's livelihood, a huge mechanical dragon appears in Research...
These personal files included reports of tapped phone calls, overheard private conversations, meetings the individual attended, and friends he had. The agency which collected this enormous amount of information was called the "Servicio de Enlance y Coodinacion" and was a direct affiliate of the Ministry of Education, Einaudi said...
...pottage he lives in, and the inalienable right to Swedish massage. Now his wife (Ida Lupino) is leaving him, his contract is coming up for renewal, and he is beginning to feel like a spiritual gelding-"one of those witless, sold-out guys, sitting around the gin table, swapping phone numbers and the latest dirt...