Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these accusations involves a 'phone call from Bingham to Fisher in which Bingham supposedly said that the League For Reaction was formed as a test-balloon to see how much bitterness there was over the results of the Presidential election. Bingham refused to say whether or not there has been such a 'phone call or whether he had made such a statement...
...Gimo picked up his military phone and got his Suchow commanders on the wire. His orders: leave the city at once, burn what supplies could not be taken along, seek out the Communist armies to the south and engage them. These were new, last-ditch tactics. It was kill or be killed. Nothing less would save Nanking and Nationalist China from imminent fall...
Operation Pearson proceeds in a supercharged atmosphere of tapped wires, shadowed cars, anonymous phone calls and secret files-and he glories in it. The GHQ, his combined home and office, is a cluster of yellow brick buildings on a quiet corner in Georgetown. Its head man, "DP" in the office lingo, is up at 6:30 a.m. in bathrobe and slippers, to tinker with a first draft of The Column. Precisely at 8 he shaves, turning the bathroom radio to an NBC news roundup that often brings the voice of his brother Leon, a commentator, from Paris...
Perfectionist. In Salt Lake City, the girl who described herself in a want ad as the "proverbial dumb blonde" stenographer, forgot to list her name or phone number...
Although he probably calls all of the Cliffe houses indiscriminately, both Barnard Hall and 33 Healey Street have received more than their share of phone recitals. Twenty Walker Street, whose new Phone number was not listed in the directory, has not heard from the nameless person this year...