Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voting, the Washington and Lee delegates nominated Barry Goldwater on the second ballot, named Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton his running mate. Through it all, Barry stayed near a phone in Washington, was plugged into the gymnasium public-address system minutes after he won and said solemnly, "I accept with great humility. I hope and pray it is a good omen for July and November...
Black Sabbath is a three-part demonthology. The Drop of Water tells what happens to a nurse who steals a jewel from a corpse: she is hounded to her doom by a fiendish faucet. The Telephone tells the story of a girl who gets a phone call from a boy friend she sent to the gallows. "I want that beautiful body of yours," he murmurs lustfully, and later he comes to get it. Terrified, she stabs him to death with a kitchen knife, but an instant later the phone rings, and when she answers it the voice of the dead...
...lovers howled in disagreement, flooded the White House with angry telegrams, letters and phone calls. In New York, an official of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said knowledgeably, "If somebody picked you up by the ears, you'd yelp too." In London, the chairman of the League Against Cruel Sports snapped, "This is a most extraordinary way to treat a dog." In Charleston, W. Va., a dog catcher said to a reporter, "The President did that? You're kidding. If he were in Charleston, I'd run him in." But beagle experts...
...courts- the months or years it can take a case to come to trial. Too often the problem is delay in the law's enforcement-the interminable minutes it can take to reach the police. In an age of computers and digit dialing, it may be easier to phone "Hiya" to a pal in Addis Ababa than to call "Help" to a cop a few blocks away...
...knows how many letters we've osent." Von Salzen said yesterday. He added, however, that the club was "going to assume that Scranton doesn't want it" on the basis of several phone calls made to Republicans in Harrisburg, the state capital...