Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compressed speech can be used to teach the blind, relay instructions to Air Force pilots, take phone orders and uncover psychological problems-all without sounding like Donald Duck...
Industry, too, has begun to benefit from speeded speech as a time- and labor-saving device. For example, when you call the phone company to register a complaint, chances are that you're talking to a machine, who will record your gripe and play it back to the operator in speeded speech form. One frozen food company has put a computer to work taking orders. Once the order has been restructured in compressed speech form, all the preliminary formalities have been worked out, leaving the operator time to fill two or three times as many orders as usual...
...never seen in shirtsleeves or without a vest; Katzenbach makes the most expensively tailored suit look as if it came from the thrift shop. (Yet, as he explained to amused associates, he will always be U-the traditional designation of the Under Secretary in the department's phone book.) The Under Secretary's door was usually closed during Ball's tenure; it is now usually open. Ball was almost exclusively preoccupied with European unity and had a theologian's hostility toward Charles de Gaulle. Katzenbach is constitutionally open minded and has a rare gusto...
...monster is fed instructions every five hours, then it's completely on its own. Mel Phillips, the program director, determines the playlist each week, largely on the phone calls taken from 4 to 10 p.m. by "Roberta, the human helper" -- who in real life is a human named Roberta...
...girl's brain-drained upper-class parents. Mother (Patricia Routledge) has her dress on backward so that it can be seen better when she is dancing, and her hair seems to be on backward too. When Father (Bayliss) grasps the bad news, he trots to the phone and demands a tuition refund, refusing to enter his daughter in the school's maternity wing...