Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more figures to prove the point. Since Nov. 22, the President has held 175 separate meetings on foreign affairs, and has discussed national security 30 times with Defense Secretary McNamara, 51 times with Secretary of State Rusk, 31 times with the Central Intelligence Agency. He has, besides, fielded more phone calls on the subject than anyone except A.T. & T. would care to count...
...They don't know Maggie. Feminine she is, but not frivolous. Daughter of a barber in Skowhegan, Margaret Madeline Chase never went to college, clerked in a dime store for 100 an hour, worked on a newspaper, taught school, filled in as a night switchboard operator for the phone company. Her husband Clyde, Skow-hegan's first Republican selectman, won 48 straight elections in his lifetime, got elected to Congress in 1936. He died four years later, and Maggie took his place, winning a crashing 25,000-vote victory in the 1940 election. She has been winning ever...
...Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The egghead President of the United States, one Mirkin Muffley, chirrups into the phone to the Soviet Premier: "Now, then, Dimitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb? The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now, what happened is that one of our base commanders did a silly thing. He, uh, went a little funny in the head. You know, funny. He ordered our planes to attack your country . . . Let me finish, Dimitri...
Sarson is not content with victory; he knows how to make corruption complete. Full of magnanimity, he visits the Vasses and hints to Andrew how he, too, can make a killing. No sooner has Sarson left than Andrew is on the phone to his broker, all business and no principle. His wife finally flares with passion for him. Another Sarson is in the making...
...audience was evacuated at 3:30 p.m. when an anonymous female phone caller told police a bomb had been placed in the theatre; the afternoon's showing of "The Wheeler Dealers" was finally resumed...