Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corridor, in his baronial office or right out on the floor of the chamber, he would go to work on a colleague -squeezing his elbow, draping a huge paw over his shoulder, poking him in the chest, leaning so close as to be practically rubbing noses. On the phone (and he was seldom off it) he was equally effective. Hubert Humphrey once complained that the only way he could resist Johnson's hypnotic persuasiveness was by not answering the phone...
...techniques of persuasion and manipulation have inevitably changed somewhat in the transition from legislative to executive branch, they have lost none of their potency. After Congress killed a proposed $545 million pay boost for Government employees, he breathed life back into the measure with a few well-placed phone calls and an earnest talk with congressional leaders. He pointed out that Economist Walter Heller had gone...
...members of the city's Association of Oldest Inhabitants had just finished their 99th anniversary dinner. Suddenly, one of the guests emitted a high-pitched whine. Washington Evening Star Reporter Walter Gold leaped to his feet as if stung and dashed from the room in search of a phone. A few minutes later, the Star's night city editor gave him a message: "Holdup at Big D Liquor Store, 4173 Minnesota Avenue, N.E." With that, Reporter Gold was on his way to the story...
...tiny radio receiver hooked to his belt. Until he began wearing it, the Star's only general assignment night reporter had to call in to his paper every half hour. Now, when a story breaks, Night City Editor John Kopeck dials a seven-digit number on the phone, hears a recorded voice say: "Thank you. Your Bellboy party will be signaled." In a matter of seconds, Gold's midriff radio, dubbed Bellboy by its manufacturer, Western Electric, sounds off. Unless Gold stops it by pushing a button, it will keep on keening for eight hours, or until...
Owen asked for a lunch break, put in a phone call to Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach in Washington, then returned to the courtroom and made a strategic-and temporary-surrender. "In view of the fact that we feel the ruling is wrong," said Owen to Commissioner Carter, "we will simply not produce any more evidence on any of the cases." With that, Miss Carter dismissed the charges and freed the defendants...