Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assembled newsmen, but it escaped them. Harry Bridges was on the way back to San Francisco, presumably because he had been unable to reach a settlement of the Hawaiian waterfront strike. The newsmen, the longshoremen and Bridges stood talking idly a few minutes more. Harry was expecting a phone call, he said. Finally the airport loudspeaker blared out that Bridges' plane was loading. "Well," said Harry, "there hasn't been any phone call so here it is." He cocked a foot up on a nearby bench and began talking slowly so that reporters could get it all down...
Unable to reach her by phone or to get an answer to a telegram, Davis, Pierre Lelandais '52, illiam EW.W. Gowen '52, and Charles J.N. Bailey '50 allegedly persuaded Dribben to accompany them in a dash across the country in Lelandais car to see Mis Leigh in person...
...girl rushed downstairs and tried to phone the embassy. She was prevented from doing so the said in a public statement of which Warshaw has a copy, "by the interpreter on duty, who forcibly held the phone. I threatened to go outside and scream for help, and he then permitted me to use the phone," Embassy officials rushed over and emphasized that this was a criminal act; the girl wired the organization she was representing and they ordered her to by home from Budapest immediately...
...fortune puts Little, who is regarded as something of a football magician (his best act is plucking an excellent passer out of the New York City streets and comes off every couple of years), in a rather embarrassing situation. This year his roster reads like an out-of-town phone book...
...stations will be installed on each floor as soon as the telephone company puts its agents on the job, Annex spokesmen said. Meanwhile phone messages taken at the other dormitories will be delivered to Moors...