Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modernistic office, the Russian said: "The Soviets believe that when you sit in your office it is less profitable than when you spend time outside on the building projects." Replied Smith: "Oh, but I keep in touch by using the telephone. I'm on the phone a great deal." Sternly, Kozuilia ployed: "The phone is all right, but the eyes are better...
...opening of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. His identification with his sponsor is so strong that any Lincoln or Mercury buyer who is dissatisfied with his car is apt to drop Ed a complaining line. (Within ten days after such a complaint, the local district manager is on the phone or the car owner's doorstep, solicitously asking what he can do to help...
...Live it normal," Bogart suggests, and normal they all try desperately to make it look. Mother goes shopping as usual, answers the phone and the door, chats prosily with teacher when she comes to see if Richard, who has stayed home "sick" from school, is feeling any better. Father and daughter go to work in the morning, and in the evening daughter dates her young lawyer (Gig Young). But people make mistakes. Little Richard writes a warning to teacher in his copybook, and father intercepts it only just in time. Another time March manages, by a brilliant stroke of opportunity...
...never have much trouble getting a date. All girls are fascinated by telephone voices, as long as you take a little nap before calling so your voice will be low. The first phone call must be done from notes, to be really effective. You must be just a little enigmatic, and give the impression of strength of character behind your taciturnity, amazing ability behind your boastful facade...
...this publicity attempt by Washington was found to be false last night when Bedford J. Groves, publicity officer at the school, admitted by phone that the release was merely a reprint of a fictitious article published in the Association of American Colleges Bulletin...