Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that she could hear was a child squalling loudly in the background and a harassed male voice that shouted, "Could you call me back in a few minutes?" When she did, he was all caution. "This may get you mad, but you'll have to give me your phone number and I'll call you back. I mean-well-you sound just fine, and I can tell it's all right, so I'll tell you something. I get a lot of calls from crackpots and curiosity seekers . . ." The result, as it was with...
...analyst comes unglued, the movie swings off on a broad, bawdy, satirical spoof of such U.S. cult objects as secret-agentry, hippiedom, and the supposedly happy New Jersey household where Dad has his "car gun" and his "house gun," Mom takes karate lessons, and Sonny taps the family phone with his Junior...
...begin with, said Stewart, it makes no difference whether the bugging is in a private home or a public phone booth. The Fourth Amendment's ban against unreasonable search and seizure, he said, "protects people, not places." Stewart was equally unimpressed with the hoary doctrine requiring actual physical trespass before the Constitution is violated. Noting that today's electronic devices have completely eliminated any need to trespass, he held that the reach of the Fourth Amendment "cannot turn upon the presence or absence of a physical intrusion...
Without Warrant. The case in point concerned a small-time Los Angeles gambler, Charles Katz, whose calls from a public phone booth had been bugged by the FBI without a warrant and with a device that had been taped to the top of the booth to avoid the trespass disability. Stewart conceded for the sake of argument that the FBI agents did not bug until they had good reason to believe that Katz was using the phone to violate federal law; then they were careful to listen only to Katz and to stop as soon as they had collected what...
...does go fishing about once a year. It's hardly any fun, he complains, "the fish don't applaud." His stamina comes from golf, a lot of walking and a lot of working. He'll launch into an old soft-shoe step while on the phone, sleeps irregularly but can cork off for a few seconds any old time. Wherever he goes, he takes his masseur, Fred Miron, who gives Hope a 45-minute rub every day. He loves practical jokes and mechanical toys; one favorite is a battery-driven Frankenstein monster that moves its arms...