Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north Texas town four days earlier to rejoin her husband, a cadet at the San Antonio aviation cadet school. Tired and worn down after fruitless room-hunting, she had spent three nights in the ladies' lounge of the Gunter, four days in the lobby waiting for a phone call from her husband...
...landed squarely in the middle of the culvert we had just left. The Dawn Attack. We sort of fitfully dozed for a while. At 5 o'clock the snapping of rifle bullets coming across our slope woke me and I heard Chuck talking to Morehouse on the phone...
Salvemini picked up the Saturday morning Traveler and then began a series of interrupted phone calls that muttered dangerous Italian into the carphones of poor Boston reporters, who get stories, for their living...
...Army last week eased its censorship of the silent interval between the last phone call home before troops leave for overseas and the mailing of the "safe arrival" card. On a censored date it took correspondents on a 14-hour inspection of the huge, wide-flung New York Port of Embarkation...
...instance, a client who has been climbing out of debt steadily may tele phone Purdy & Rouse, to ask whether he can buy a living-room suite, or a suit of clothes. The firm looks over his affairs and his needs, tells him yes or no. For the service, C.A.C. charges a small fee (averaging about $4 monthly), staves off garnishments and judgments, does the worrying...