Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Premier Georges Pompidou will be minding the store during De Gaulle's stay in the hospital, the general's room is connected by phone with the Elysee Palace, and the suite next door, occupied by Madame de Gaulle, includes a couple of offices for members of his staff. Even the eleven-hour delay between the start of his surgery and the official announcement was a result of his direct orders. The medical bulletin was not released until De Gaulle himself approved the text...
Patricia Neal, also of Hud, won the best-actress Oscar.* Nearly eight months pregnant, she was asleep at her home in Buckinghamshire when the phone rang; next day she went down to London for a flashbulb greeting at Marylebone Station, with full obsequies by the top-hatted stationmaster...
Staff workers spoke bitterly of federal inaction. "When we phone and tell them that a Negro has been beaten, they do nothing. Maybe they'll act this summer when they realize the racists are going to be shooting at white girls...
...Atwood made no answer. Instead she called the Holmes house on the 'phone...
Alice and Eric emerged from the adjoining 'phone booths from which they'd called their respective homes...