Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, at week's end, came massed Communist guerilla attacks on two large American compounds at Pleiku, a mountain town 240 miles north of Saigon, where about 1,000 American military men are stationed. When President Johnson received word of these raids, he conferred by phone with Defense, State Department and CIA officials, convened a Saturday night session of the National Security Council, made the decision to launch jet attacks on North Vietnamese staging areas. Next morning he met again with the NSC, reviewed the results of the air strikes...
Councillor Coates also appeared angry as he questioned Cronin. Coates said that during a phone call Monday morning, Cronin had mentioned that the John Hancock Life Insurance Co., Coates' employer, was a major financing agent of the annex...
Cronin told the Council that he was only trying to be helpful by reminding Coates of a possible violation of the state's conflict of interest statutes. Coates retorted that Cronin had not said anything about the conflict of interest laws during the phone conversation...
Lyndon, meanwhile, journeyed to a Governors' reception at the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Mrs. Mark Hatfield, wife of Oregon's Republican Governor, pinned a red carnation on Johnson's lapel. Leaving the Michigan booth, Lyndon called to Republican George Romney, "Pick up the phone and call me any time!" He lingered long, speaking softly to Governor Paul Johnson at the Mississippi booth. Connecticut's John Dempsey urged Lady Bird, with a nod at the President: "Take care of him, sweet Lady...
...John Nichols (Hamilton College, '62). Pookie is part tomboy, part playgirl, a sort of Alice in Wonderland with carnal vocabulary-and knowledge. And even when she is using both, Pookie is whimsical about it. Her most whimsical proposition is that she and Jerry make out in the phone booth while calling her minister back home in Indiana for his opinion on premarital relations. Jerry is not ready for such advanced technique, and their puppy-love affair soon becomes more depressive than manic, finally and affectingly (like the novel) whimpers...