Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phone rang in NBC's Washington studio just as Correspondent Ray Scherer wrapped up a Today show interview with Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman. Scherer picked it up only to catch an earful of criticism. "You didn't look as good as he did," the caller complained. "The lighting on you wasn't good." Scherer's critic was neither his wife nor Today's New York producer -it was Lyndon Johnson...
...plaster cell wall. He raved again and again that Jews were being tortured and killed because Gentiles wanted revenge for his crime. He shouted that he could hear screams from the jail cellar, machine guns in the street. Often he would slip his visitors bits of paper with phone numbers scribbled on them in an oddly womanish hand, whispering desperately: "These people have been murdered. They're all out to get the Jews, and these people won't answer the phone because they're dead." Usually, the numbers were those of his sister Eva and his brother...
...less than patient with such a crime-especially when Scotland Yard began systematically raiding their haunts in a search for the paintings. Two days after the theft, a tip from the underworld brought police to an apartment where two Rembrandts and a Rubens were found under a bed. Another phone call-police theorize that this one was from the distressed gang itself-led them to a park, where they found the other paintings wrapped in newspaper under a holly bush...
...hospital was caught in crossfire between Viet Cong and Americans. Dr. Smith herded all her patients into the wards and got all but one, a boy in traction, onto the floor to reduce the risk of casualties from machine-gun bullets. When Americans urged her by phone from Kontum to take refuge in the city, she snapped: "Don't be ridiculous! I can't leave my patients." Then a stray bullet hit a woman in the thigh, and Dr. Smith was on the phone again, this time barking at an American commander: "Stop firing on my patients...
...create a climate conducive to business investment, Rhodes took the political risk of sharply paring state expenditures, has kept Ohio one of only ten states with neither a statewide corporate nor a personal income tax. Constantly on the phone to out-of-state executives, the Governor has also worked to get existing Ohio companies to expand, attended 800 "industry appreciation" dinners in all parts of the state. Unlike most governors, Rhodes did not complain when the Federal Government closed local installations, instead welcomed the challenge of getting private industry to take over abandoned sites...