Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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state of mind as hysteria created by President Roosevelt; after he finished speaking. 150 protesting phone calls jammed the station switchboard; no calls came to support...
...overrun, that the British fleet might be forced to seek bases in Canadian ports, that Nazi Germany might claim Canada if she won-in which case unfortified bridges and boundaries would comfort neither U. S. citizens nor Canadians. Smooth Mr. Moffat raised no such grim prospects. Quizzed over the phone by a Toronto newspaper on how long he would stay ("Mr. Roper and Mr. Cromwell each spent about three months") he was reassuring: "I know ... I know . . . I'll stay longer. . . . There will be more and more to do. What these things are we can't reveal...
...which the invasion of England would give it), the market still stood in danger of waking up next morning to find itself closed, as it did in July 1914. Administration advocates of such drastic action are still in the minority. But, backed by a barrage of letters, telegrams and phone calls to SEC from small investors pleading for a moratorium, they argue for closure as follows...
Washington reporters were stymied in attempts to verify rumors of romance between waspish Senator Carter Glass, 82, and Mrs. Mary Meade, 50, Amherst, Va. schoolteacher. One reporter reached the Senator by phone, started off by saying timorously that he hoped the Senator wouldn't consider his inquiry impertinent. Cracked Carter Glass: "I'll say it's damned impertinent. I know what you're going...
...times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father. She remembered she did not have a nickel for a pay phone...