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Word: phoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday were thwarted, she says, by a full voice-mail queue. She wants her husband to stay at Duke under the care of Drs. Trotter and Tuttle, whom she trusts. When a woman at PHP she believes was Brown finally returned her call Tuesday afternoon on the pay phone near the surgery ward, her message to Kim was that PHP "had a deal" with Duke that if it hadn't transplanted Todd over the weekend, it would move him to unc. "It felt like they were trying to make me doubt the doctors," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biggest Fight of Shotgun's Life | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...82iosk148jr9n." This gibberish is just one in a series of digital snapshots of my recent online travels: what websites I visited; what pages I viewed and for how long; what I bought, downloaded or printed. What's more, every site I visit can send programs called "cookies" down the phone line into my machine to snag this data and either use it to try to sell me something ("He spends time at E! Online? Let's spam him with that Titanic-for-$5 offer!") or sell my "profile" to some other marketer. Yikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Your Tracks | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...good at it. No wonder he likes phone sex with you... You're just like a little Marilyn Monroe vixen. I--I would--I, I, I know, in my wildest dreams, I could never have phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...almost called you mom," Monica Lewinsky blurted to her so-called friend Linda Tripp, speaking clearly into a bugged phone line. In the girl-talk transcripts released last week, Linda's advice, feints and thrusts have a certain eloquence. For example, describing the epic in which she and Lewinsky are embroiled: "Whew, this is a weird movie." How could one not be affected? More examples of Tripp's wisdom--and tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

Lewinsky (on the phone): You know what's really weird? I keep hearing these double clicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

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