Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bedlam hung over the encampment. There were too few shelters. Sewage lines were uncompleted. Only two shower units were available to the nearly 1,000 people on hand at week's end. But the camp site had its amenities too. There were power lines, portable latrines and phone booths. A big blue-topped tent was pitched to serve as a mess hall. Mobile clinics were scheduled to wheel up to dispense medical, dental and psychiatric care. Resurrection City even boasted the ultimate insignia of identity: a ZIP code number...
Tantrums & Tirades. The phone call from Rostow proved to Johnson that he had judged the situation correctly. Nine hours after North Viet Nam's proposal reached Washington, the President appeared before a previously scheduled news conference?the first full-dress, televised session he had held in four months?and announced: "I have sent a message informing Hanoi that the date of May 10 and the site of Paris are acceptable to the U.S." He added somberly: "I must, however, sound a cautionary note. This is only the very first step. There are many, many hazards and difficult days ahead...
...reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer a promise to participate in the Washington protests and thus give up a valuable weekend. The lost weekend really starts off when Norman, very much...
...discover a phone which has not been cut off and call my brother. As I am talking someone puts a piece of paper beside me and writes "This ... phone ... is ... tapped." I address myself briefly to the third party and go on talking. It feels good to talk to someone on the outside, although it is disappointing to find out that the outside world is going on as usual...
...Brennan slate's one-month, low-keyed campaign involved phone calling, neighborhood stumping, and electioneering at the poll booths. A printed disc with the names of the slate's members and the number of the appropriate polling-machine lever was its only campaign literature. The majority of voters at the polls seemed generally pleased to see college students and housewives at the polls. Their pleasant appearance put the crusty-looking opponents on the defensive. "Members of the incumbent slate there seemed like caricatures," a young housewife who had come to vote for McCarthy commented. "They all looked alike with those...