Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once been a home. By the application of imagination, exhausting effort and money, we got together a native repair crew who did a job of painting and renovation which still is far from U.S. standards. By haunting the Government, we seem likely to get a phone (in Shanghai, we hear, a civilian must spend $3,000 U.S. to have one installed where one hasn't been before). By doggedness, we dug up a second-hand bathtub and seat toilet ($750 U.S.; new equipment would have cost $2,000). By ruthless shopping we found several midget stoves (coal has jumped...
...manifold have George Stoll's extracurricular responsibilities become that he has hired two full-time workers to help him and Keller with committee minutes, make phone calls, get speakers. Says he, quietly: "I have always felt that congregations should do more than congregate...
Recently, the following colloquy took place between the secretary in our San Antonio, Texas bureau and an anonymous telephoner. Said our girl, answering the phone : Garfield ni-yon, three-seven...
Zhdanov's Finnish disgrace was a delight to his rival Molotov. One anecdote of the period tells how Zhdanov was talking to Stalin in the latter's office in the Kremlin. The phone rang. It was Molotov. Stalin talked to him for some five minutes, but Stalin's part of the conversation consisted in saying "yes, yes, yes" while Zhdanov sweated visibly. Finally, just before he hung up, Stalin said "no, no." Stalin glanced up at Zhdanov, who was looking relieved, and said: "Don't be too happy. He just asked me whether I was having...
...General went home in the evenings, too tired even to talk. She saw to it that he had plenty of relaxing books to read ("my husband [goes] through a pile of books with the avidity of a swarm of locusts . . ."). Once he was in bed, she answered his phone calls all through the night. Usually the calls came from enthusiastic civilians who could hardly wait to tell the General about their brand-new scheme for destroying enemy tanks, etc. But once, at 3 a.m., when Mrs. Marshall had patiently insisted that she be allowed to take the message, the voice...