Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerned that the University family would be torn apart on the issue and that the students and their faculty would end up more as antagonists than as pupils and teachers in the finest sense of both of those words. After all the meetings and all the behind-the-scenes phone calls, out of such violently opposing opinions, came a bland compromise: the Administrative Board proposed, and the faculty ratified, the decision to put on a virtually meaningless probation any student whose bursar's card had been turned...
...clerk in the store said that Officer Yetman "commanded me in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to let him use the phone." But apparently sympathetic to the Avatar salesman, he refused. The policeman then went down the street to find a public telephone...
...Cambodia. Come the weekend, lady and lord were 3,000 miles apart, he in London and she on the ski slopes of Quebec's Mont Tremblant with Caroline and young John. The big crowds at Tremblant left Jackie to herself, but Lord Harlech was bugged by transatlantic phone calls from U.S. reporters. "There's no truth in this story," pleaded his lordship at 2 o'clock one morning. "I have no plans to marry in the near future...
...fast plots, dazzling footwork, bizarre technical contrivances. It is always the "how" of a story that keeps viewers pinned to their TV sets, since nearly everything else on the program is deliberately made familiar. At the opening, Peter Graves, 41, as Impossible Mission Leader Jim Phelps, enters a phone booth, warehouse or parked car, finds a hidden tape recorder, and turns it on. "Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that has been stolen or prevent the supervillains from achieving some dastardly scheme. At the end of the recording the tape destroys itself...
...Radio thought he was. Castro's crier expected Cassius to contribute a few bitter words about the U.S. in connection with the opening in Havana of a movie biography, Cassius Clay, made by a French company but not released in the U.S. A Cuban reporter reached him by phone, began pumping him with on-the-air questions about everything from boxing to Viet Nam. Hold on, said Cassius: "This interview will not make me any money. No money, no conversation." Humphed Havana Radio: "We know something more about this boxer. Goodbye, Mr. Money...