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Word: phoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before we received that issue, my wife had a 102° fever, a splitting headache, muscle pains and a rash on palms of hands and soles of feet. We thought it was probably a belated case of flu. Within minutes of reading your article, I was on the phone to our physician, who promptly prescribed a tetracycline drug. Blood tests have since confirmed the diagnosis. Since this is the only known case in this area, it could have remained unidentified but for TIME. Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...grate a jeffer, because old Jeff Vestal always had a big fire going. To say charlie ball for embarrass, because old Charlie Ball, a local Indian, was so shy he never said a word. To say forbes, short for four bits, and tubes, for two bits. To call a phone a buckywalter after Walter Levi, known back then for having a phone at home. To say ball for good, because the old standard of quality was the Ball-Band shoe, with the red ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Harpin' Boont in Boonville | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Picking up a phone, he checked with the commanders of Spain's seven military districts. All but one demanded that a state of emergency be declared-and the one exception, Barcelona's leader, said he would accept nothing less than a return to full military rule. Armed with this information, Carrero consulted the three military ministers and proceeded to draw up the emergency decree. Bypassing the Cabinet's liberals, Carrero then went directly to Franco and convinced the generalissimo that the declaration was vital. Next day, at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting, Franco ordered that the decree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Military Moves In | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...Orleans hotel last week can expect no better treatment than Army recruits. For weeks they will live barrack-style, four to a room, at the Rountowner Motor Inn. A deputy sheriff will guard them even when they sleep. Only in emergencies will they be allowed to talk by phone with their wives-and then only after a sheriff contacts Judge Edward Haggerty for his permission. For their trouble, the jurors, who will eventually decide whether Businessman Clay Shaw conspired to kill President John F. Kennedy, will not be paid a cent by the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juries: The Ordeal of Serving | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...from a usually reliable informant, an FBI agent tails a suspected gambler and bookmaker for five days. On four of those days, the suspect parks his car near the same apartment house in St. Louis. He is observed, on one occasion, entering a flat that has two phones listed in another person's name. The phone numbers correspond with those that the informant claims are used for taking bets. Is there enough evidence for a magistrate to issue a search warrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: New Irritant | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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