Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grasshoppers stripped the fields of southern Mexico, storms blocked main highways, drought left fields barren and brown. Last week he said: "One of my Cabinet ministers told me that all we needed to make the story of disaster complete was a fire in the Poza Rica oilfields. Pronto a phone rang. I picked it up. It was a man saying Well No. 6 at Poza Rica was afire." Last week, 13 days after it started, the Poza Rica fire was finally...
Yard police were unaware of any subversive activity until a phone call informed them of the paint-and-poster attack. Several student night-owis reported seeing a car containing four students at various points along Mill Street...
...Eleven-year-old Rita Bamford of Los Angeles listened to the Vatican Choir on the radio, and liked it. Next day she picked up a phone and asked the operator for the Pope. Put through to Rome, she was told by a Vatican City spokesman that the Pope could not speak English (he can) and would not be able to talk to her. To a papal aide she explained: "I'm an American girl who heard your choir and I just thought someone ought to tell you how good it is." The bill...
...Survey: ". . . On the basis of a few hundred phone calls, made each month, the survey arrives at a mythical figure which supposedly is the approximate number of alleged listeners tuning in the comedian's program...
...ideas). But after their showings they are glad to have American style-cribbers buy them to copy; it is a large part of their business. Sophie was returning from such a Paris mission in 1931, when, on the last day out, Adam called her by ship-to-shore phone from New York: "Hold your breath, we're going to be married tomorrow." They got married on a Saturday and Sophie went back to work on Monday...