Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...station. When a commercial is announced, a man ostensibly from Allstate Insurance will cup his hands around a tiny house, saying "You're in good hands with . . .," and drop the house with a great shattering crash. In other sequences, a girl steps out of the shower, answers the phone, hands it into the shower and says...
Tall and lean (6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs.), Helmsley keeps fit by frequent skiing. He often stays home in Westchester County for a day or two a week to toil over papers without interruptions. He keeps a direct phone line from home to his office switchboard, however, "so no one knows whether I'm calling him from the office...
Hitch has since revealed that he conferred with Pusey on the phone before making the announcement...
Like most consciences, the Observer operates under trying conditions. Its budget barely pays the phone bill. Its edtorial headquarters is one shabby room near the University of Texas. Its fulltime writing staff has rarely numbered more than two. Its most distinguished alumnus, Harper's Editor Willie Morris, recalled last week: "Every Friday afternoon we'd have a full-fledged story conference at Scholz's beer hall. Then one of us would go out of town, and the other would stay behind and put out the paper. The guy who remained had to do everything: editing, copy-reading...
LAST SPRING a Faculty committee reviewing the curriculum of Harvard's ROTC program discovered that two courses required security clearances of their students. "We're going to get on the phone and try to have this straightened out," Dean Glimp commented the day the committee released its report. And sure enough, neither of the courses is still classified...