Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...microphone embedded in a bite-size rubber pad (1½ inches square, one-quarter inch thick) that can be carried in the investigator's palm, attached to an amplifier in his coat pocket; when pressed against a phone booth or a door, it relays the action through an earplug that looks like part of a hearing aid. Hotel dicks love...
...three-wire tap": a small transmitter that can be fitted in less than a minute into the base of a telephone. When clipped to the proper terminals, it picks up every word spoken both ways over the telephone, monitors ordinary conversations in the room when the phone is not in use. It transmits what it hears by radio; powered by the telephone wires, it works indefinitely. A device at the receiving end translates dialing clicks into the telephone numbers that have been called...
...grand juries customarily indict everyone," Weaver said, "and those who get off the hook do so at arraignment." Weaver said that they were hoping to get the arraignment delayed, "so our lawyers can investigate some more--so he can look into things I can't mention over the phone...
Nellie flies around through the narrow paths left between great piles of possessions, tending to his wants. Clothes are in the sink, boxes and packages are on the chairs; Monk's grand piano stands in the kitchen, the foundation for a tower of forgotten souvenirs, phone books, a typewriter, old magazines and groceries. From his bed Monk announces his wishes ("Nellie! Ice cream!"), and Nellie races to serve; she retaliates gently by calling him "Melodious Thunk" in quiet mutters over the sink...
...uncertain terms, any New Hampshire hopes. Last week one Rocky aide was overheard telling the Governor that still another staffer was "calling Cabot once more to tell him he's got two days to put up or shut up." And Rockefeller followed that up with a personal phone call to Lodge. He carefully refrained from disclosing anything pertinent about the conversation...