Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After some of the things that have been going on," said Erhard, grimly puffing a thick cigar, "I thought it would be useful for us to get together." Several cigars and 90 minutes later, Adenauer more or less meekly picked up the phone and called his principal ally, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, advising him to do nothing that would aggravate the disunity of their party...
...hell." Contrary to settled law, he allowed the Cleveland police to testify that Sheppard had refused to take a lie-detector test, then failed to instruct the jury that they should disregard this testimony in their decision. Finally, even while the jurors were deliberating, they were allowed to phone their friends. No court official knew what was said...
...breezily whiffled the air from its front tires, preparatory to having it hauled away as part of the city's enthusiastic traffic improvement campaign. A hard-pumping attacheé soon got things rolling again, however, and there was one consolation. Gordon got dozens of sympathetic phone calls from fellow flatties. Said he: "This is the first time in three years I've had such unanimous support...
...himself one of the least public of writers. He rarely gave interviews, and when he did he was frequently gruff and uncooperative. He secluded himself in a classical Southern house that was an almost defiant backward clutch toward a lost way of life. He often refused to answer the phone. When the movie made from Intruder in the Dust was given its world premiere in Oxford, he announced, to the producers' horror, that he would not attend. He finally did appear at the theater only because someone had reached an aunt of his in Memphis, who thereupon told Faulkner...
...radical from the Northern point of view. But in Mississippi, Hodding Carter recalls, people who had always vaguely thought that "Bill Faulkner is one of us" by the mid-'50s were calling him "small-minded Willie, the nigger lover." He was the target of abusive mail and crank phone calls. Around Oxford there were stores and filling stations that refused to serve...