Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movies is a saloon that employs a wise and loyal piano player and a patriotic, emotional bartender. Both films include a hated Nazi (or Vichy) officer, an admired underground leader and his beautiful wife who need Bogart's help, a vicious cat-and-mouse police interrogation scene, and a phone call at gunpoint to assure a safe get-away for the anti-Nazi forces...
Eisenman learned of his change of fortune about noontime during a lunchbreak from his Lamont studying. His roommate informed him that calls from supporters and from Ellis had kept the phone busy all morning. A Physics concentrator, Eisenman said he spends an average of 57 hours a week in Lamont...
Long past midnight, the phone rang in a motel room near Miami. The caller spoke swiftly. Minutes later, a New York City detective named Richard Maline stood before Locker 0911 at the Trailways bus station in downtown Miami and opened it. Inside, he found two small, waterlogged leather bags containing several tissues. Wrapped in the tissues were a couple of handfuls of gems, including the golfball-sized, 563.35-carat Star of India sapphire. Thus were recovered nine of the 24 sapphires, diamonds, rubies and emeralds that had been taken from New York City's American Museum of Natural History...
...last, Kuhn's contacts began telephoning. "Everything's O.K. Things are moving," said one. "Isn't this fun, fellows?" Finally came the key phone call. An intermediary-a sometime jeweler apparently helping the police-picked up Detective Maline and drove him to a luncheonette. They parked and got out of the car. When they returned, they found a key in the car, with a note directing Maline to the Trailways bus station and locker 0911. Then, in the finest traditions of cloak-and-dagger-manship, the driver reportedly stuffed the note into his mouth and swallowed...
...death of his father last year, had nearly everything in his favor: a wealth of international experience, an easygoing charm, a beautiful wife, and a long intimacy with the Kennedy family dating back to Father Joe's own ambassadorial days in London. Able to pick up the phone and get instantly through to Kennedy, a relationship few ambassadors have ever enjoyed with any U.S. President, Lord Harlech kept Anglo-American cooperation on a smooth course...