Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something's wrong if they don't." Carpenter agreed dazedly. Once outside, Powell told Stella to keep going. "When they were safe, I slipped into the gangway where he couldn't see me from the window, leaped a fence and ran to a cigar store to phone the police...
Selby's TV and newspaper work keep him going 13 hours a day. Once he gets to his typewriter, he can finish a column in around 15 minutes. The rest of the time he is busy on the phone, answering his mail, badgering his contacts and just plain digging for stories-as when he broke, in effect, the state's case against Virginia Carroll in the shooting of Politician William F. Meade (TIME, April 7, 1952). He is usually home in suburban Bryn Mawr by about 7 p.m. for his ceremonial "B and B" (Brahms and bourbon...
Since dawn, the telephone had been ringing. At 8 the house phone began croaking as the doorman, 16 floors below, helped to screen visitors. De Sapio's wife answered the calls. De Sapio stayed at the kitchen table, talking to a visitor he deemed highly important...
...grandchildren. Scrupulous about the ethics of high office, he never lets his wife take his Government-furnished limousine for her own use. When he was vice president of Bell Laboratories, which makes most U.S. telephones, he refused to use any influence to get his son a phone out of turn, let young Quarles wait 15 months for an instrument. In short, this was a man as different as possible from his predecessor...
...syndicated version of Rudolf Flesch's best-selling (over 60,000 copies since March) Why Johnny Can't Read. Said one school official in St. Louis after the Globe-Democrat started its series: "I've never seen a book more discussed than this one. My phone practically rang itself off the wall...