Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mother was so still that Peter and John supposed she must be dead. They were distressed-and hungry too. They had been warned that the phone was no plaything; it had been placed, just out of Peter's reach, on top of a high bookcase in the living room. The little boys looked at their mother; they wandered around the house, played upstairs and downstairs, wished that someone would come. By 10 o'clock they were hungrier than they had ever been before. They went out through the white picket fence and stood watching the quiet highway...
...Over the Phone. One point the President seemed anxious to make definite: the blueprint shortly to be discussed by the Big Four was just a first draft. The blueprint was a plan to stop aggression, the President said; it did not envision an organization which you would have to call on whenever some country wanted to build a bridge over a creek...
Spaatz knew already that the time was strictly limited for using his weapon the way he wanted to use it; the day of invasion had been set. Quietly Sally Bagby put through a call to Jimmy Doolittle. Over the phone (equipped with a secrecy scrambling device) Tooey talked in low tones; the bombers were ready. A weather report came in. It was better than it had been for days, but still not too good. Bad icing conditions were forecast at 5,000 feet over the rendezvous area...
...always cherished: an enlightened, holistic statesman of the Empire and the World. He likes to move at the center of things: he popped up rather unexpectedly at the Cairo Conference last November and met Franklin Roosevelt for the first time (they had often talked over the transatlantic phone). Later Smuts said: "We two old Dutchmen get along splendidly...
...Japanese tirades in the Washington Post, even had him vaccinated for cholera and smallpox by the per sonal physician of the commander-in-chief of Nippon's Third Fleet. When Gayn finally walked out and became city editor of the anti-Japanese China Press, he received a brusque phone call from the Japanese naval attache, who informed him that he was officially "disvaccinated...